"What is this? Why... why is it so terrifying?" the red-haired elder cried out.
Another elder shouted, "Look!"
He pointed beneath their feet.
The shockwave swept in from below...
It was about to swallow their entire party.
"Block it!" The red-haired elder struck out with a gigantic palm of True Essence.
Boom!
The red-haired elder was flung high into the air. Even an Enlightened Realm giant could not withstand this shockwave.
He was hurled far away...
The party beneath his feet suffered as well. The aftershock of the explosion caught them from thirty miles away. The giant serpent was thrown into the air and smashed into the cliff ahead. The hundred-odd people on its back were riddled with holes, their tendons torn and bones shattered.
The ten elders of the lower branch had split into twelve routes. This route was the closest to the sect Gate. Aside from the two Enlightened Realm giants, everyone else had been wiped out.
And this was only the aftershock from thirty miles away.
The two elders stared at each other. The red-haired elder's lips trembled. "The Outside World... truly is in the Dharma-Degenerate Era?"
The black-haired elder's face was pale as dirt. "I think... I think we made a terrible mistake, a terrible mistake! Four hundred years of warfare to seize favorable terrain—was this really favorable ground? Wasn't this plainly an executioner's block?"
To seize this land containing a Gate to the Outside World, the Haoyuan Sect had fought for over four hundred years. At last, they had slaughtered tens of millions of natives, eagerly awaiting the day the Gate opened so they could seize that world at the first opportunity.
Yet today, when the Gate opened, they were met with the fiercest attack from the Outside World.
A single fireball had directly destroyed