Everyone inside the tower broke out in a cold sweat.
Their eyes were fixed outside the tower.
Yet the footsteps were still drawing closer.
The crushing pressure continued to bear down, as though a great mountain were weighing upon every person.
Bang!
Inside the tower, someone could no longer endure the pressure and fell straight to their knees.
Those who had not yet knelt were still struggling bitterly to hold on in agonizing postures.
Another step.
Several more people could no longer bear the pressure and dropped to both knees.
Tap, tap, tap...
The footsteps continued...
With every step, more people fell to their knees.
Xu Zhu, seated at the head, had bloodshot eyes. As Wind Moon Island's strongest expert, he had not yet knelt, but his legs were already trembling uncontrollably. The floor beneath his feet had long since split into dense cracks, which spread in all directions like a spiderweb.
The doors swung open on their own.
Several black-robed figures, their true faces impossible to make out, had arrived at the entrance.
As they reached the doorway, everyone in the hall had already knelt. Those in worse condition were sprawled flat on the ground, unable even to crawl.
In the entire hall, only Xu Zhu was still stubbornly holding on.
The leading black-robed figure took another step and entered the tower.
That step
brought about a qualitative change.
Boom!
Xu Zhu felt as though his soul had been dealt a devastating blow. Blood sprayed from his mouth, and he collapsed to his knees like Mount Tai crumbling, his kneecaps shattered into powder.
He laboriously raised his head to look at the newcomers, his teeth chattering.
No matter how hard he racked his brains, he could not understand how his tiny Wind Moon Island had provoked experts like these.