The firmament suddenly seemed to be torn open by an invisible giant hand. The sky, already gloomy and gray, now became an immense black curtain, weighing heavily overhead.
The dense dark clouds looked ready to swallow heaven and earth. They rolled and surged like the hardened scales covering hideous primordial ferocious beasts, until a narrow fissure split open among them, bottomless and so eerily dark that it made one's blood run cold.
At that very instant, a dazzling bolt of lightning, swift as a silver spirit serpent, plunged from the boundless horizon into the fissure, then struck savagely down into the murky space below before anyone could react-
In an instant, the sudden lightning illuminated the entire earth. Even the surrounding air began to warp violently under its terrifying heat...
A thunderclap that shook heaven and earth followed immediately, resounding through the clouds with unimaginable force.
It sounded as though countless enormous war drums were being beaten madly high above. Their pounding merged into an immensely powerful sound wave that surged outward in every direction.
Wherever it passed, towering mountains and flourishing ancient trees suffered devastating blows, sending the demonic beasts dwelling in the forests fleeing in terror.
Although the torrential rain had yet to fall, the air was already filled with a strange, unbearably pungent odor, a mixture of intense ozone and scorched earth.
Every streak of lightning that split the sky was blindingly bright. Like majestic judgments delivered by a god's hand, they mercilessly trapped all things in this world between the extremes of light and darkness, locked in a fierce, ceaseless clash.
Yet before this heart-stopping spectacle, Ye Hua stood atop a mountain peak with extraordinary composure.
She held her head high and faced the increasingly dense, rolling thunderclouds overhead, where lightning flashed and thunder roared,