Above Penglai Island, a thunderous boom rang out. In an instant, shattered stone pillars fell like meteors, accompanied by deafening roars.
"Run! Heavenly Island is crashing down!" someone shouted.
At once, everyone hurried toward the outskirts.
"Rumble—"
The colossal blast tore through the sky, as though heaven and earth had been smashed open with a crack.
Heavenly Island, falling from several hundred zhang in the air, was like a meteor ablaze with raging flames as it crashed into Penglai Island with the force of ten thousand jun.
At the instant of impact, the earth shuddered violently as though repeatedly struck by a giant hammer. The solid rock strata gave off cracking sounds as spiderweb-like fissures frantically spread from the impact point, instantly swallowing the hills and rocky shores along their path. Sand and shattered stones shot into the sky like fountains, then crashed back down mixed with searing dust and smoke. The entire surface of Penglai Island was like a boiling pot of soup, ceaselessly heaving and twisting.
Even more terrifying was the suddenly erupting energy wave.
The shockwave from the collision was like an invisible tsunami, sweeping in all directions with thunderous force.
The howling gale swept past, snapping ancient pines that took several men to encircle cleanly in half. Their canopies were flung into the air like kites with severed strings. The coastal reefs collapsed beneath the tearing energy wave, their pulverized fragments mixed with huge waves and smashed against the shore, stirring up walls of water dozens of zhang high and reducing every boat moored in the harbor to splinters.
A distant archway snapped in half with a clang. Before the copper bells beneath its upturned eaves could make a sound, they were swept into streaks of light by the energy wave and vanished into the dim