Boom—
At the deafening blast, Jiang Lu's heart clenched. She jerked her head up, eyes locked on the attack hurtling through the air.
An attack from a Void Refinement cultivator was no child's game.
Vast spiritual power, carrying a terrifying pressure that threatened to destroy everything, surged like a tidal wave straight toward the entire coral bed.
Where the power passed, the sea exploded. A towering wave rose several yards high, churning and roaring as seawater crashed outward in every direction.
Countless cultivators who failed to dodge were thrown aside by the raging water and swept into the bone-chilling sea.
Cries for help rose across the surface, but the thunder of the crashing wave was deafening. Every plea was swallowed by its roar and lost in the howling sea wind.
Jiang Lu's face grew grave. Her fingers gripped a coral branch tightly as she gathered spiritual power around herself.
Even within the coral bed, she could clearly feel that devastating pressure bearing down on her.
Chaos engulfed the sea. The cultivators were too busy saving themselves to notice that the scattered, floating coral branches were still silently growing and spreading.
The wave swept toward the coral bed with a fierce attack inside it. Jiang Lu's eyes widened.
She stood frozen in place, holding fast to the coral branch.
As the violent spiritual power crushed down, the hard coral branches cracked apart.
Sharp cracks sounded one after another. Countless broken branches and fragments tore free and floated on the blue sea, rising and falling with the waves. Coral chips scattered like red jade across the sky, glimmering coldly in the waterlight. Red covered the sea.
The coral cage imprisoning her shattered under the terrible force. Great sections of its outer wall collapsed, leaving only a thin innermost barrier.
If she gathered