The instant Chu Province City's City-Defense Grand Formation was shattered, the cultivators inside, who had long been ready to flee, scattered like startled birds, using every means at their disposal to escape the city.
Zhang Jingyuan and Wang Yuerong, the two Nascent Soul Cultivators who had yet to reap any spoils, naturally refused to let these fat sheep escape. Putting away their magical treasures, they formed hand seals and cast their spells.
Heaven and earth changed color, spiritual energy gathered, dark clouds massed, and golden sand surged, as though a calamity had descended from the heavens.
The ones responsible for this change in the heavens were naturally Zhang Jingyuan and Wang Yuerong. After advancing to Nascent Soul, cultivators could alter celestial phenomena within a certain area when casting fourth-tier spells. Though they could not freely command the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within an area as Spirit Transformation cultivators could, they had begun to show a trace of that power.
Wang Yuerong practiced a water-attribute cultivation method, and this time she cast an ordinary fourth-tier Rain Arrow Technique. Even ordinary Qi Refinement cultivators could cast this water-attribute spell, yet in the hands of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, it unleashed the power to destroy heaven and earth.
The water spiritual energy, dense as dark clouds, swiftly transformed into rain arrows packed as tightly as a woven net, shooting toward the fleeing cultivators of Chu Province City. Countless screams of agony rang out. Whether they were flying on swords or sheltering inside flying spirit artifacts, none could withstand Wang Yuerong's wide-ranging rain-arrow assault.
The seemingly frail, harmless rain arrows became deadly weapons in a Nascent Soul Cultivator's hands, reaping cultivators' lives across a vast area. In mere moments, over a thousand low-level cultivators died beneath them, while the wounded were beyond