"How could it happen so quickly?"
Heavenly Lord Shihu, who did not know that Xu Taiping was secretly refining the Origin-Returning True Flame, cried out, losing some of his composure.
The reason he lost his composure like this.
Was that the speed at which Xu Taiping's Thunder Sound Five-Direction Heaven-Splitting Formation collapsed had not merely far exceeded his expectations-it had completely defied them.
In his view, with the True Martial Great Emperor's four Thunder Sound Banners, the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation should, at the very least, have helped Xu Taiping withstand four bolts of tribulation lightning from the Heavenly Tribulation Eye.
Yet now, never mind four bolts-it had not even held out against the second.
Most crucially, his misjudgment of the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation had left him with no time at all to employ any means to rescue Xu Taiping.
So now, he could only watch helplessly as Xu Taiping lost the protection of the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation and faced the tribulation lightning overhead.
"Bang!..."
Almost as soon as Heavenly Lord Shihu finished speaking, one of the two grinding discs formed by the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation-the one made from the power of thick earth-broke cleanly in two.
"Boom!"
In the blink of an eye, the entire Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation began collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Had it not been for the four Thunder Sound Banners, and Xuanzhi and the others beside them desperately pouring in true essence and qi and blood, the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation would likely have disintegrated completely the instant the thick-earth grinding disc shattered.
But what left everyone deeply puzzled was this.
Faced with the collapse of the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation, Xu Taiping seemed entirely oblivious atop Jiaye Hall. He