Tribulation

On the Ancient Starry Road, disaster struck overnight. No one knew how many young powerhouses vanished from the road, falling into the mortal dust.

It came suddenly and without a sound. Apart from a very small number of people, almost no one knew that upheaval had already arisen on the ancient road.

Another ten days later, within a Heavenly City, the sounds of battle rang through heaven and earth. Before long, the fighting ceased, and a figure fell from the sky, crashing into the dust.

An Ancient Road Enforcer had been killed, shocking the world.

"Seal the news. Do not cause panic."

Upon receiving the report, the various Starfield Overseers immediately ordered the news of the Enforcer's death suppressed.

No matter what, the ancient road could not descend into chaos.

Yet no wall under heaven was airtight. Though the news was suppressed, many still learned of the Enforcer's death, and their hearts were shaken beyond measure.

Everyone knew that the Enforcers on this road possessed cultivation at least in the mid-stage of the True Realm. Some were even peerless experts at the peak of the True Realm, towering giants wherever they went. Unless one faced an expert of the same level, no one could harm them.

Now that an Enforcer had died in battle, it meant that experts far beyond the younger generation had arrived on the ancient road. Even the Nine Kings were no longer invincible.

Before the sixteenth Heavenly Pillar, the woman in azure robes saw the familiar name upon it, then turned and left.

At the same time, at the end of a wilderness, the thirty-third Heavenly Pillar rose straight into the sky, standing eternal through the ages. Before it, Ning Chen looked at the names one by one, and for the first time, ripples appeared in