"What is that...?"
When a surge of blood qi shot into the sky from the direction of Humble Heart Garden within Imperial Emperor City, many people in the city were astonished. Knights were always few in number; even among knights, those who had witnessed Sky Knight battles—or battles between Sky Knights and Half-Saint domains—were few enough to count on one's fingers.
Thus, when that blood qi soared skyward, many residents of Imperial Emperor City assumed that some spectacle was being staged in the imperial city today. Xuanyuan Hill was currently hosting the Ten Thousand Treasures Convention, and during the convention, it was only to be expected that Imperial Emperor City might put on some festive display. Such things had happened before.
Yet before long, those watching the strange sight from afar realized that this was no performance, but that something major had happened within Imperial Emperor City.
The blood qi erupting from Humble Heart Garden was demonic and tyrannical, like fire sweeping across the heavens. Accompanied by strange light and shadows, it constantly shifted and condensed into all manner of bizarre savage beasts, as though trying to break free from some invisible Binding.
For one instant, that soaring blood qi seemed on the verge of succeeding. But then, the phantom of an enormous, pitch-black ancient stele appeared above it, and the blood qi was suppressed in an instant.
Then all of Imperial Emperor City heard a sound from the ground in the direction of Humble Heart Garden, like countless muffled thunderclaps rolling past. The ground throughout the twenty-kilometer radius around Humble Heart Garden trembled. The closer one was to the garden, the more violent the tremors became—it was practically an earthquake. The households near Humble Heart Garden fled their homes in terror, only to be evacuated by the imperial city's