Fang Han's pupils contracted sharply. A deadly sense of danger seized him.
He had sensed it the moment the black lightning descended upon him.
No matter how fiercely the Azure Wood Invocation drew in life force, it could never withstand a lightning punishment that seemed capable of destroying the world.
The next instant, the deep-black lightning swallowed him whole.
His immortal Witch Body, strong enough to withstand purple lightning head-on, proved as flimsy as paper before the black bolt. It was annihilated with ease.
After erasing Fang Han, the pitch-black tribulation lightning lost none of its force. It struck the vast earth below.
The seemingly indestructible bedrock and earth veins were as fragile as tofu before that deathly black lightning.
There was no thunderous crash.
Only silent extinction.
When the black light faded and the thunderclouds withdrew, a vast, bottomless void stretched for dozens of miles across what had once been level ground.
It was as though someone had carved a piece clean out of Great Qian's territory.
Meanwhile, at the Imperial Academy in Great Qian.
Li Shun suddenly felt every hair on his body stand on end for no apparent reason.
"Could someone have discovered my connection to the Fang Han puppet?"
Li Shun's heart skipped a beat.
His worry was hardly unfounded.
Fang Han's appearance this time had caused far too great a disturbance.
That final bolt of black heavenly lightning had left even Li Shun, watching from the heights of the ninth heaven, shaken.
But he soon realized that the change in his body was not caused by his connection to Fang Han.
It was...
A change in the Imperial Academy's Thunder Pool.
Perhaps because it had unleashed that world-destroying black lightning, black light spilled from the Thunder Pool. It looked ready to break the seals