"Whoosh-"
Gu Qingnian landed a few meters in front of the crowd. He looked at the people scattering around him, then sensed the powerful figures lurking in the shadows.
"Since you're here, none of you are leaving!"
As his words fell, a Soul Ring in front of him flashed softly, and the surrounding air abruptly froze.
"Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void!"
In the next instant, an invisible force burst from Gu Qingnian's eyes, which blazed with dazzling brilliance.
"Bzzzt-" A silent humming pulse spread from Gu Qingnian's position, enclosing an area a thousand meters in diameter in an instant.
From outside, the powerful figures watching from far away could see that a massive black sphere had enveloped the thousand-meter-wide area around Gu Qingnian.
Everyone inside stood frozen in place. No one knew what had happened or what was going on within. A Soul Douluo tried to peer inside, but all he could see was an indistinct expanse of endless white light and nothingness.
Some powerful figures who had narrowly escaped were reckless enough to try stepping inside again. Yet the moment they came within a few meters, they were forcibly dragged into it, never to make another sound.
A few lucky ones had stayed farther away because they were weak and thus escaped altogether. Among them was one of the guard commander's subordinates. At the sight, he scrambled and stumbled toward the Imperial Palace...
The view shifted inside the sphere.
The scenery within the sphere kept changing, and before anyone realized it, an independent space had formed. Then the entire space turned pitch-black. Behind everyone under attack, an enormous eye resembling a black hole had appeared at some unknown moment.
No one in the space could see or feel anything. Or rather, they could see everything and hear everything.
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