Specks of radiance suddenly rose, rising...
Then, they seemed to merge with that Scarlet Sun, making its brilliance blaze ten thousand fathoms high. This was a genuine celestial anomaly!
Watching that speck of light leave her body, Nangong Miaomiao did not know why, but a tear rolled down her cheek. "I feel so awful... It feels as though I've lost something very important..."
Nangong Wusheng had merely felt somewhat lost before, but now his expression changed drastically. "If even you say so, Miaomiao, then this light leaving your body is likely immensely harmful... Yet there is nothing any of us can do..."
"Power comparable to a Dao-level Adept... and impossible to conceal. If His Majesty learns of it, chaos will sweep Everyone Under Heaven..."
As Nangong Wusheng sighed, a man in his fifties dressed like a martial artist beside him stared blankly toward the estuary.
He could barely recognize him as the chief head of the martial world, a Heavenly Pivot Grandmaster.
"We martial men have labored single-mindedly in unceasing cultivation, hoping that one day martial arts might stand against strange arts... Who could have expected that today, upon seeing it, I would learn, learn..."
By this point, he was already sobbing too hard to continue.
Even the onlookers felt an urge to weep.
Several martial artists nearby shouted in turn, "Not seeing the full extent of today's battle is truly unbearable! Is there anyone unafraid of death willing to put out to sea with us and watch again...?"
"I'm going! I'm going!"
Just as the crowd clamored, the sky suddenly darkened!
"Look!"
Nangong Miaomiao abruptly raised her head and looked toward the heavens.
There, in the sky, an enormous human figure had appeared at some unknown moment!
The figure was shrouded in a black robe, its features impossible to