The dust cleared, and silence fell...
People raised their heads to gaze into the void above. The Thunder Spirit had been destroyed, and the thunderclouds vanished, revealing the autumn sun suffused with red light.
The dozens of Spirit Transformation cultivators from the Thunder Sect stared dumbstruck as that single sword strike annihilated the Thunder Spirit.
With the Thunder Spirit destroyed, an overwhelming backlash from their Dao Arts followed...
Grief appeared on the faces of the Thunder Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators. The Thunder Spirit that dozens of them had summoned together had actually been annihilated by a single sword strike from Su Mo.
Their faces took on a withered look as the backlash from their Dao Arts continuously stripped away their vitality...
One Thunder Sect Spirit Transformation cultivator looked at the elderly Cloud Sect Spirit Transformation cultivator beside him and sighed. "Run..."
"Run back to the Upper Realm... without an Inquiry Realm cultivator, no number of Spirit Transformation cultivators will be of any use in this realm..."
"Unless an Inquiry Realm elder descends, he will have no equal in this realm..."
"They... have created a god..."
Before he could finish, the backlash consumed the last of the elderly Thunder Sect cultivator's vitality. His body turned to ash and scattered on the wind.
Everywhere one looked, the vitality of the Thunder Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators was devoured by the backlash from their Dao Arts, one after another. All of them turned to ash, leaving not even corpses behind.
Ordinary Dao Arts would naturally never have caused such a backlash, but this Thunder Spirit was a secret art of the Thunder Sect, one that only Inquiry Realm cultivators could perform.
They had performed it by joining forces, and the backlash from the Dao Art compounded upon every one of them...
The elderly Cloud