In a large settlement on the central plains, a child who was playing happened to look up and pointed at the strange, moving black shape in the sky. He asked curiously, "Mom, what's that? A black meteor?"
His mother looked up. Her face turned deathly pale, and the water jug in her hands clattered to the ground. She pulled the child tightly into her arms, trembling all over, unable to say a word.
At a survivor camp on the west coast built around a stadium, the crowd in the square was drawn to the dark trail cutting across the clear sky. After a brief silence, panic and commotion erupted.
"Is it a new monster?!"
"Oh, God! What is that?!"
"Is it coming for us? Run!"
Governor Norton and all the senior officials looked pale.
They knew perfectly well that this had gone far beyond "eliminating a threat." It was a naked display of power directed at the entire nation.
It was telling every living person on this land who held the absolute power to decide life and death.
And the chicken being killed to frighten the monkeys was the fifteen Large Nests, along with the Leader Rank Abyss Beasts entrenched within them and the land stretching more than ten kilometers around each one. At that very moment, the dark cones of light had erased them completely from reality, leaving fifteen terrifying craters behind.
Lin Yi paid no attention to the results. It was as if the outcome had been decided the instant he acted.
He simply raised a hand with an impassive expression and gave a slight tug at the empty air.
The next moment, under the gaze of countless onlookers, fifteen crystal rivers—including the one led by the Gold-Veined Blue Crystal—came hurtling through the air from fifteen distant locations,