At this moment, the stream of refugees approaching Shenjing was endless, yet Emperor Court officials seized the opportunity to line their pockets. If they did not have enough money, they were not allowed into Shenjing.
Meanwhile, the Tianyi Demonic Sect was also using this opportunity to gather talent, collecting another generation of Children of Calamity. But in the end, not a single person was willing to solve the problem.
But now... everyone looked toward the heavens.
The sky had split open.
"Ah! The heavens—the heavens have cracked!"
A scream tore through the clamor outside Shenjing, and everyone witnessed a sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
Across the azure vault of the Huaixu Realm's sky, enormous black fissures suddenly bloomed without warning. They were not chaotically scattered, but like the branches of some colossal tree, spreading madly from the zenith in every direction, as if they meant to tear the entire canopy of the world to shreds!
Then, the earth began to quake violently.
"Earth Veins... the Earth Veins have come alive?!"
Every martial artist could clearly sense it: deep beneath the ground, the Earth Veins that had once lain hidden had now transformed into massive golden phantoms, like gnarled tree roots. They burst from the soil, soared into the sky, and thrashed about madly!
—The heavens were its branches, the Earth Veins its roots—
—The cosmos its trunk, all living beings its leaves—
At this moment, a truth submerged in an endlessly ancient history revealed itself before all living beings in the most unbelievable, most impossible-to-conceal manner.
—The entire Huaixu Realm was a colossal Divine Wood!
And the Divine Wood was life itself!
—The Blood Sea Demonic Sect was using life as its root system to shake the very foundations of the Huaixu Realm!
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