Boom!
Above Peach County, a violent clash began. Blast after blast rang out like heavenly music surging, like the thunder god beating his drums. Amid crisscrossing arcs of lightning, rings of shock waves swept outward in every direction.
The vast county city was like a little ship on an immense ocean, tossed up and down by furious waves and tides, seemingly ready to capsize and collapse at any moment.
Everywhere, people cried out and fled, rushing blindly ahead like headless flies.
The Rogue Cultivator Alliance's compound below had already been struck by the earlier shock waves, cracking apart its many halls and houses. Now a deafening clatter erupted, with buildings collapsing on all sides.
Almost in the blink of an eye, it was razed to the ground, reduced to an enormous field of rubble.
Amid the billowing dust, countless martial artists of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance fled for their lives.
Whoosh!
A figure burst through the smoke like a fierce bolt of lightning. As he leaped forward, he raised a hand lightly, and a mighty surge of energy became a flowing ribbon that swept through the air, catching several people within it.
With bronze skin and a lean, powerful physique, this was Woodcutter, an elder of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. As a formidable master of the third human dao, he could not possibly be injured by this little spillover of power unless a Mystic Yellow expert deliberately targeted him.
Yet his eyes were filled with horror too. He thrust out both arms, seemingly transforming into a thunderbird, and amid crackling explosions, he covered more than a dozen li within a single breath.
The swirling ribbon dispersed, revealing four figures: Leng Ningshuang, a first-rank expert of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, and Iceheart Woman, Red Wyrm, and Hai Qingyu, three outstanding members