Bang!
As the snow-white barrier shrouding the Sect Master Tower shattered, it rang out with a deep boom.
Perhaps someone noticed, but who among the Azure Cloud Pavilion cultivators, gripped by fear, could care?
There weren't many enemies actually attacking the Azure Cloud Pavilion.
In fact, there were only four.
But every one of them was terrifying.
A burly man carried a Steel Saber, yet didn't use it to cut people down. He simply charged straight ahead, smashing into anyone in his path. Whether they were at the Heaven-Connecting Realm, Soaring Dragon Realm... or even the Inner Palace, one collision was enough to kill them.
Dense Daoist Arts hammered into him, blasting his flesh apart and leaving him looking utterly savage. Every so often, he roared to vent his pain.
But the truly terrifying thing was... the casters who struck him would inexplicably die the moment their Daoist Arts landed!
Some bled from all seven orifices, some were decapitated, and some had their flesh and blood torn apart.
The mighty Sect Master Feng Ye had unleashed a powerful Daoist Art against the burly man, only to freeze in place and die, blood pouring from all seven orifices.
Later, the wounded burly man charged back and forth at the Azure Cloud Pavilion Mountain Gate, but no one dared stand in his way or attack him. He was practically chasing cultivators all over the mountain by himself.
He bellowed wildly, and everyone he chased was scared out of their wits.
A woman wearing a featureless mask moved in an uncanny manner, her form as elusive as a ghost. She flashed from side to side. Every time she appeared, a cultivator died. She couldn't be caught, outrun, or evaded. Like the deep night itself, she shrouded everything in death with ease.
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