The Skin of a Gourd
No one knew which Heavenly King-level expert it was, but a hand that blotted out the sky and covered the earth reached out, attempting to block this force. Yet in an instant, it was torn apart by the jet-black pillar of light and shattered violently.
"A Heavenly King's power may be formidable, but it is still no match for the Lord of the Divine Court."
He Ping spoke faintly. "Even the true Lord of the Divine Court, when faced with the power of this tribulation, would likely only choose to retreat three leagues rather than take the initiative to intercept it."
The jet-black pillar of light crashed forward with savage force, black qi billowing everywhere. Cracks once again surfaced through the void. The various defensive barriers of the fourth layer of heavenly spacetime shattered and dispersed in an instant, like waves striking a reef.
The fourth layer of heaven was also breached by the aura of calamity. The heavens split and clouds scattered. Within the third layer of spacetime, massive continents were crumbling and collapsing. Beneath overturned stretches of earth, groundfire and magma could even be seen surging upward.
The entire continental plate suffered a severe impact from this strike and shifted out of place. Dust storms and tsunamis erupted everywhere.
Within the void world of the fourth layer, heaven and earth quaked and the four poles trembled. The east surged and the west sank; the west surged and the east sank; the south surged and the north sank; the north surged and the south sank; the edges surged and the center sank; the center surged and the edges sank. It was as though the world itself were ending.
In that instant, countless cultivators caught within felt the arrival of a great heavenly tribulation. In