Yet in the present situation, facing the Heavenly Retribution Lightning Tribulation above their heads, even knowing it was not aimed at them, the people of the Immortal Capital still felt lingering fear.
An Immortal Court cultivator looked at the dark mass of thunderclouds. "What the hell? How did someone provoke Heavenly Retribution in broad daylight?"
"What kind of heinous, rebellious deed did they commit?"
After all, Heavenly Retribution was a sharp sword hanging over the heads of countless cultivators. Yet since it bore the name of Heaven, it was naturally as impartial and selfless as Heaven's Will.
Under normal circumstances, no one would touch upon the threshold of Heavenly Retribution.
Even Demonic Cultivators from the Four Lands would not provoke Heavenly Retribution so easily.
Heavenly Retribution upheld the order of heaven and earth, the laws and principles of the world.
So long as no utterly deranged person sought to extinguish the world's spiritual mechanisms or destroy its Earth Veins and Earth Qi, Heavenly Retribution would not appear so readily.
Not to mention that most cultivators simply had no means of touching the world's Earth Veins and spiritual mechanisms in the first place.
"Tsk, look in that direction. Doesn't that seem to be Heavenwatch Tower?"
"So it's them. No wonder."
Someone looked beneath the thunderclouds, where a towering building stood.
That high tower to the southeast rose a hundred zhang into the sky, seemingly beyond reach. Perched there, it overlooked the entire Immortal Capital, whose lights and shadows all fell within view.
The Immortal Court cultivator who spoke carried a subtle tone in his voice.
Who did not know that the cultivators of Heavenwatch Tower were not exactly overbearing tyrants when they went about their business?
Yet relying on Heavenwatch Tower's duty of observing the world, they could always act with