The moment Yan Shouyun's voice rang out like a great bronze bell, wind and thunder erupted. Dark clouds blanketed all of Heaven-Bearing Prefecture, and heavenly thunder rolled.
The Demon-Subduing Divine Dao Painting shone before Yan Shouyun. He touched his brush to a divine being, then swept the great brush toward the sky. In an instant, divine light blazed across the scroll, and the divine being he had touched vanished from the painting.
Then heavenly lightning descended, wreathed in divine light.
Its radiance bridged heaven and earth, illuminating all of Heaven-Bearing Prefecture and making countless hearts pound with terror.
Rumble-
Amid the rolling heavenly thunder, a voice louder still rang out with the descending lightning, like a roar from heaven and earth.
"Great Yong's Martial Might Thunderclap Divine Ability Great General, Duan Silie-is here!"
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
All of Heaven-Bearing Prefecture seemed to shake. Duan Silie had not proclaimed the name of the Demon-Subduing Palace, but the official post he had held in life in Great Yong. Perhaps he, too, understood that this would sever his last lingering attachment to the mortal court-and mark his final act of loyalty to Great Yong!
At the Heavenly God's descent, some were horrified, some could not believe their eyes, and others were utterly terrified. Among them, the Three Sages of Xiaoshan acted fastest.
Without even taking time to confer with Jin Lan, the three demons of Xiaoshan, gripped by terror, immediately turned into a demonic wind and skimmed along the ground, fleeing west.
Duan Silie's divine light descended to the north. One glance showed him everything, including those furtive movements. But he had barely raised his great spear when Yan Shouyun's brush had already fallen upon the Demon-Subduing Divine Dao Painting again, touching another figure.
Rumble-
Lightning fell, divine radiance lit the horizon, and