Fang Yun looked up and saw a colossal fireball hurtling down from a tremendous height. It not only radiated light and heat but also gave off a deafening roar, even stirring up a fierce wind that swept down upon the crowd, blowing people this way and that until they could barely keep their footing.
Suddenly, the colossal fireball split into two, then four, dividing again and again until it became hundreds of fireballs.
"Heaven's Punishment for Violating Ritual!"
Yan Ningxiao's voice suddenly rang out, like a judgment pronounced by the heavens.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...
Fireballs roughly ten feet across followed wondrous trajectories, landing precisely atop the head of every Ice Emperor Guard and instantly vaporizing them.
All four hundred Ice Emperor Guards vanished into nothing.
Everyone was stunned by this formidable power. This was merely a sacrifice of the lesser three animals, not the middle or greater three, much less a grand sacrifice invoking the Four Great Rivers and Five Sacred Mountains. It showed just how powerful the Way of Ritual and Yan Ningxiao were.
Not only ordinary people but even many scholars were utterly astonished. They had assumed that the School of War possessed the strongest slaughtering power, and that the Confucian School only became powerful after reaching an exceedingly high realm and gaining command of the Sacred Way. They had never imagined that the seemingly most harmless Way of Ritual could be this strong.
Some younger scholars asked the older people nearby and soon received an answer. The Way of Ritual was a law of heaven and earth established by the Human Race itself. Any who violated the Human Race's great rites would suffer several times, or even dozens of times, the damage.
When fighting the Human Race, Demon Barbarians feared those of the School of War