The days that followed were nothing short of a nightmare for the Venerables and Divine Flame cultivators of the Desolate Region-a massacre.
Only a handful of beings could conceal their presence from the scrutiny of Chaos Artifacts. Most of them hid in strange places, evading pursuit by obscuring their own heavenly secrets.
The others had no recourse. They could only watch helplessly as Great Dao Chains descended, pierced them, and dragged them away.
For a time, the entire Desolate Region lay shrouded beneath a pall of terror.
There were exceptions, however, such as the Fire Kingdom Imperial Capital. When the crystalline Great Dao Chains descended, the Fire God Tree, which the world had regarded as an ordinary tree, erupted with power. The Ancient Saint Emperor Ancient Coffin blocking the entrance to the Ancient Battlefield shone, causing the battlefield to manifest and clash fiercely with the Chaos Artifact in the heavens.
The same scene unfolded in the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital. The Stone Emperor had spent many days preparing to survive the great tribulation. When it arrived, he activated the Forbidden Divine Formation without hesitation, meeting the scythe swung by an Upper Realm "Giant" head-on.
That day, fierce winds howled above the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, lightning danced, and dragon roars rang out without end. The entire sky seemed on the verge of splitting apart.
Fortunately, the collision did not sweep up innocent beings, and the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital escaped destruction.
When everything finally settled, people discovered to their shock that the former site of Peerless Hall had been blasted into nothingness by an unknown force. The vast Stone Kingdom imperial palace had also fallen deathly silent. The mighty Human Emperor of a nation had simply vanished, his whereabouts unknown. No one knew whether the great tribulation had taken him