Above Flame Valley, vast clouds and mist whirled through the air.
Terrifying flames raged across the heavens as if the apocalypse had descended, their dreadful pressure shaking heaven and earth.
Yet the instant Lin Cheng appeared, the terrible pressure permeating heaven and earth suddenly receded like a tide, vanishing completely in the blink of an eye.
Ignoring the Flame Valley overlord's roar, Lin Cheng rose into the sky and threw an unadorned punch.
This punch was swift one moment and slow the next, carrying an inexplicable sense of viscous sluggishness.
As though it had encountered some immense obstruction.
Other than that, no other aura leaked out. Yet the Flame Valley overlord's body suddenly trembled!
"Rumble..."
Everyone suddenly realized that the sky had gone dark!
After the mysterious man in white threw that punch, all light between heaven and earth was swallowed up. Endless shadows shrouded the world as the entire world trembled violently. An enormous, indescribable phantom of a fist suddenly appeared in everyone's mind.
"..."
Everyone abruptly held their breath, their faces flushing red.
It felt as if an invisible giant hand had suddenly clamped around their throats!
An intense suffocating sensation crashed over them.
"I—I can't breathe!"
"What's going on? I'm clearly already in the Sea of Suffering Realm. Why do I feel this too...?"
"...My strength is draining away—this!?"
At that moment, everyone discovered in horror that although they had never needed to breathe in the first place, they suddenly felt an intense pressure and suffocating sensation.
Moreover, as time passed, the surging power within their bodies was being rapidly drained away.
It was exactly like an ordinary person suffocating. If it went on long enough, they might die on the spot.
"No!"
The Flame Valley overlord's enormous skeletal body suddenly exploded, as if an invisible