Above the entire Divine Capital, a crimson membrane suddenly descended slowly from every direction. Like some kind of living tissue, it pressed down inch by inch from beyond the heavens, sealing the vast capital completely in an instant!
Hiss-
At that same instant, the lights of every household in the city flared to life.
Yet what lit up was no longer the warm glow of mortal life.
Eerie Blood Lanterns, forcibly kindled by incense and fire prayer power, spread through the streets and alleys, bathing the entire city in a grotesque radiance.
Incense offerings, karma, the Ji Clan's ancestral vein, and the vital essence of the Divine Capital's countless living beings were all forcibly linked together by a terrifying will at that very moment.
Bloodlight spread, and the ground trembled. Before the Ancestral Temple, the ancient patterns meant for ancestral worship lit up with bloody radiance, one after another.
Within the Origin Pool, the ancient platform bearing the Immortal Emperor inheritance looked inexplicably sinister under the red light, as though it had crossed in a single step from a sacred platform of the Dao into a blood altar for living sacrifices.
"The grand formation is reversing... sealing the city. What is going on?!"
"They've gone mad! There's residual Heavenly Demon filth in this bloody aura! Great Zhou's imperial family, what have you done?!"
Chaos swept through the gathering.
The leaders of several less powerful factions, who had genuinely come only to observe the ceremony, paled on the spot and rose almost instinctively to retreat. But the moment they moved, the Blood Haze Firmament outside the Ancestral Temple thundered downward, overlapping with and corrupting the Divine Capital's original City-Guarding Grand Formation. It forcibly twisted a formation meant to defend the city and protect its people into a Blood Prison that sealed