Silence.
Deathly silence.
After that terrifying collision, powerful enough to tear apart the firmament and annihilate all things, the entire Primordial Three Realms fell into an eerie, deathly hush.
Time seemed to have stopped flowing, and space seemed to have frozen solid.
Countless trillions of living beings, mortals and cultivators alike, held their breath at that moment, focusing all their attention on the East Sea Shore, on the Sky Above Golden Ao Island, still shrouded in endless destructive light.
Worry, terror, delight, indifference...
Complex thoughts from every corner of the Primordial World intertwined high above.
"Vice Sect Leader!"
"Senior Hong Yun!"
After that brief, deathly silence, the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Interception Sect disciples on Golden Ao Island clenched!
They could not see what had happened at the center of the tribulation light. They could only feel that destructive aura, powerful enough to reduce every living being below a Sage to ash.
"Damn it! Who was it?!"
Zhao Gongming clenched both fists, his nails digging deep into his flesh, yet he remained utterly oblivious.
"What a vicious move! Striking at the crucial moment of Senior Hong Yun's attainment-this was an attempt to kill him!"
Fairy Bixiao trembled with fury, on the verge of unleashing the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
"Who else could it be but one of those few?"
Daoist Duobao's usually steady frame now trembled uncontrollably, from both anger and helplessness.
A Sage had struck!
Who but a Sage could unleash such a terrifying blow at the very instant the Heavenly Dao Will descended?
"It must have been Yuanshi of the Chan Sect!"
"Exactly! Who else would be so vile and shameless?!"
"He couldn't sit still once he saw our Interception Sect flourishing! Some sanctimonious Yuqing Saint he is!"
Outrage surged through the crowd!
Every Interception Sect