In Azure Cloud Prefecture, the lingering might of the Li Family's past wars had preserved peace even amid the chaos engulfing the world today. The people here had their own rules, upholding the order the Azure Cloud Li Family had left behind. With Green Lady and the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother, two Great Luo Golden Immortals, the rise of High Person Universal Compassion, Ye Xiu, Patriarch Tianye, and others, armies equipped with Spirit Puppets, and the prefecture's strategic arrangements, its overall strength already rivaled that of an empire.
Amid these troubled times, Azure Cloud Prefecture had actually maintained a rare peace and tranquility.
But today, everyone in Azure Cloud Prefecture paled.
Dark clouds swept across the sky above the endless night, and astonishing magical power spread through the heavens.
The Heavenly Pool Holy Mother in the snowy mountains, the frowning Green Lady in the forest, Xuanyuan Liqun of the Xuanyuan Family, Han Meng and Zishu Feng in the Eternal Immortal Sect, and all the powerful cultivators who had fled the imperial dynasty—all their expressions changed at that moment.
On Heaven's Chasm Mountain, someone had manifested a phantom of the Great Dao. It towered a thousand zhang high, its eyes pale white, as though all the spiritual energy and magical power between heaven and earth had to give way before him.
With his left hand behind his back, he advanced toward the enemies in the heavens, while his right hand swept out with casual disdain.
"Riiiing!"
A sound like the distorted ringing of tinnitus echoed in almost every Azure Cloud resident's ears, leaving them dazed.
This was no tinnitus. Every Void Refinement Realm cultivator could sense that the man in the sky was seizing Azure Cloud Prefecture's fortune. That fortune became streams of air, drawn toward his hand from every corner