As the Heavenly Star Meteoric Iron exploded with a thunderous boom, a roar that carried ferocity, majesty, and ancient nobility shot into the heavens, its soundwaves sweeping across a million li of territory as though they were tangible.
Under that roar, every living creature between heaven and earth trembled.
Birds in the mountains and forests plummeted to the ground, their wings quivering as they dared not take flight. Savage beasts went limp in all four limbs, pressing themselves flat against the mud with their heads buried deep, without even the courage to look up.
The surging rivers abruptly stilled, the fierce winds froze in place, and even the drifting clouds and mist seemed pinned in midair.
Across the land, the faces of all ordinary people changed drastically. Their ears rang as they felt a mountain-like pressure bearing down upon their shoulders. Their legs gave out, and they collapsed to the ground one after another, unconscious.
Only experts above the Grandmaster Realm were left dizzy and disoriented by the roar, without passing out like ordinary people.
Yet when they came back to their senses and looked toward the heart of the sea of lightning, every one of them wore an expression of shock and disbelief.
"What kind of savage beast made that sound? How can it be so terrifying?!"
"That beast is definitely beyond a third-order savage beast. It may even surpass the fourth order—is it an emperor-tier savage beast?!!!"
"Impossible! In the Great Luo Dynasty, let alone emperor-tier savage beasts, even king-tier and fourth-order savage beasts were wiped out by our forebears long ago. Where could an emperor-tier savage beast have come from?!"
"With a single beastly roar, it can knock out commoners for ten thousand li and suppress all living things amid mountains and rivers. Only Grandmaster Realm martial