Vast pressure bore down from every direction. Everyone below Foundation Establishment, regardless of status or ability, was pressed flat against the ground like tiny insects frozen in amber.
Before strength, all were equal. At this moment, cultivation and power became the only measure.
Only cultivators at Foundation Establishment or above could move slightly within this terrifying gravity field, but even they felt an unbearable weight.
Chang Hao's face was covered in frost. "It's the great wilderness giant's Heaven Topples, Earth Crumbles. Li Chen has attacked us!"
Sang Chong shrieked, "Have you gone mad? How dare you attack us! Let us out, now!"
Elder Yang of the Hecheng Merchants' Association said, "It's no use. Powerful enemies surround us on every side. Even Market Chief Dong fled in advance. This was clearly planned!"
He sensed enemies surrounding them. The commotion they had heard earlier had merely been a pretense to lure them into the trap.
Elder Li of the Flying Boat Guild said, "You've really dragged me into disaster!"
He regretted it bitterly. Had he known, he would never have waded into these muddy waters.
The others were even more panicked. They had no idea what Li Chen intended, or how he dared defy universal condemnation and treat them so brutally.
Sang Chong was still shrieking, "Let us out!"
Though neither man nor woman in appearance, his cultivation was genuinely formidable. In his fury, his magic power surged, and he actually straightened up and began to move.
Chang Hao gave a stern order. "Everyone, circulate your power and resist together! This must be coming from the great wilderness giant's mechanism device. If we all exert ourselves together, we can break free."
Everyone hurried to do as he said. Sure enough, they felt the force field loosen considerably, and their bodies began to