Above the square, clouds of an unfathomably deep black continued to gather...
Dark clouds filled the sky. No thunder sounded within them, yet when the people in the square gazed at that darkness, so deep it seemed capable of swallowing even their sight, a profound tremor stirred in the depths of their souls.
As the dark clouds spread, the multicolored pill lightning rapidly contracted, as though it had encountered something terrifying.
"What kind of thundercloud is this? It actually frightens all the other thunderclouds so badly..."
At the sight, everyone in the square was overwhelmed with horror...
On the raised platform, the pupils of Xuan Kongzi and the others constricted slightly. A thought they had anticipated, yet still found unbelievable, surged into their minds! A Ninth Grade pill...
Within a stretch of Void Space in the Pill Region, invisible spatial ripples quietly spread.
"Black Demon Lightning... it's been so many years since I last saw it."
An ethereal murmur slowly sounded through the dark space...
At that moment, Liu Yu, standing on a stone platform in the square, seemed to sense something. He raised his gaze slightly, and vast soul power silently emerged, sinking into the void and surging toward a point within that unknown space...
"Truly terrifying soul power..."
As that vast soul power descended upon the unknown Void Space, an old man in coarse hemp robes quietly emerged from the boundless darkness.
Though the hemp-robed elder's expression remained as still as an ancient well, considerable waves rose within his heart... A soul at the Late Heaven Stage... Liu Yu...
The moment the hemp-robed elder appeared, that vast soul power receded like the tide. Liu Yu, atop the stone platform, also withdrew his gaze...
High in the distant sky, the black clouds churned ceaselessly. Heaven and Earth lay utterly