As Si Chen's words fell-
BOOM!!!!
Thousands upon thousands of lightning bolts poured from the oppressive clouds toward the ground, bearing resplendent heavenly might!
"Aaaaah!"
Atop the walls, the surviving soldiers and civilians alike were terrified by this sudden, world-destroying heavenly might.
Countless people covered their ears and clutched their heads, huddling in their corners and trembling.
Before heavenly might, cultivators and mortals alike were as insignificant as a grain in the vast ocean.
Despair enveloped everyone once more.
They thought this heavenly punishment would wipe them out as well.
After all, when gods looked down upon the human world, how were mortals any different from ants?
Yet a long while passed, and the death they expected never came.
One bold rogue cultivator shakily opened his eyes, then froze on the spot as though struck by lightning.
The myriad bolts crashed down, yet they seemed to have eyes, weaving between the Filth Demons and the mortals.
They swept overhead and brushed past their sides, raising only a gentle breeze without harming a single mortal!
In the end, every bolt slammed into the frozen Filth Demons!
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Heaven and earth were impartial, treating all things as straw dogs. But when a god chose to protect his own, heavenly might slew only those that deserved to die.
Where the heavenly lightning passed, black mist evaporated and flesh was annihilated.
The monstrous tide that blotted out the sky was being erased in great swaths at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand...
After an unknown stretch of time, the relentless thunder finally began to fade.
The thunderclouds dispersed, and sunlight spilled over the earth once more.
Before Zhongyang Pass, the wasteland that had been filled by the black tide was now nothing