"Whoosh...!"
Above the Four Symbols Sect's headquarters in the Cloudwatch Mountains.
A fierce wind howled past, sweeping away the energy particles and dust in the air, and calm returned to the space.
They stared at the enormous crater smashed into the ground before the Four Symbols Sect's Mountain Gate.
And at the figure inside it, his entire body charred black, his aura feeble, already half-unconscious.
At that moment, heaven and earth fell utterly silent.
Whether they were the experts of the three sects gathered here today or the martial artists from the various factions of southeastern Purple Cloud Prefecture watching from a distance.
All of them stared with wide eyes.
Chen Xiao was a peak Grandmaster at nine-star Source Manifestation Realm, yet on this visit to the Four Symbols Sect, he had not even seen anyone from the sect.
He had barely drawn his saber before he was struck unconscious.
"What happened? Sect Master Chen... why was he struck by lightning?!"
"What on earth is going on?"
"I heard the master of the Yin Baleful Sect slaughtered people like scything hemp and defiled plenty of respectable women. Could this be heaven's punishment?"
While the crowd buzzed with discussion.
The leaders of the Ironrock Sect and the Mistshadow Sect, along with the Grandmaster experts of all three sects, had already undergone drastic changes in expression.
They all looked toward the dark clouds overhead in horror.
"A Great Grandmaster!"
From the power of thunder that had suddenly descended just now, they had actually sensed the aura of a Great Grandmaster, a Source King Realm Expert.
Moreover, they sensed that the yin baleful energy within Chen Xiao had already been broken down by the power of thunder and lightning.
Lightning was still ravaging his body, and given how lightning energy suppressed and