Boom!
Immediately afterwards, the ten-thousand-zhang giant tree uprooted itself and charged towards another part of the void fissure. The vertical trunk swung in mid-air, turned horizontal, and smashed heavily into the fissure. At the same time, countless branches and limbs spread out from the tree like a raging flood.
“Like flower yet not flower, no one cherishes it.
Cast upon road and bone, no one thinks of it.”
At this moment, the Deathly Female Ghost uttered a faint, mournful voice. She stepped forward, and the entire red maple forest shifted horizontally through the air toward the void fissure. In the blink of an eye, it vanished into one section of the several-hundred-li fissure.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Simultaneously, the ten great skeleton armies sprang into action. Long spears, flying arrows, and other weapons thrust and shot forth. Streams of white light burst out, flooding toward another part of the void fissure with power that seemed capable of annihilating the entire void.
The whole army also rushed swiftly toward the fissure.
“Kill!”
The antlered youth shouted loudly, the only one among them to produce a human voice. At his command, a rolling tide of beasts surged forward, raising massive waves, treading the void until it shook. Dense and overwhelming, they charged toward one segment of the void fissure.
Before entering, they unleashed attacks. Terrifying torrents of power caused the void to quake violently once more.
Dong!
On the other side, the one-zhang black heart throbbed. A vast, horrifying sound wave transformed into tangible force and plunged into the fissure. The myriad black shadows hoisted the black heart and rushed rapidly inside.
The hundred-zhang-high entrance of the void fissure was now filled with raging energy, yet none of it burst outward.
Still, the entire earth and the whole void trembled fiercely.
“Om… ma… ni… pad… me… hum…”
Buddhist chants resounded. The thousand-zhang golden Buddha radiated light that stretched ten thousand zhang, illuminating the boundless region. Its enormous body soared into the sky toward another part of the fissure. As it charged in, the palms pressed together in prayer clapped outward. A colossal golden palm of boundless might condensed into what seemed a solid golden Buddha hand and slammed into the fissure.
The entire thousand-zhang golden Buddha followed, rushing inside.
Boom!
Then an even grander scene unfolded. The whole sea overturned, gathering into a single current that poured fiercely into the lengthy void fissure. The gigantic sea beast rode the oceanic surge and plunged in, as though intending to shatter everything inside.
After the sea roared past, the area reverted to dry land once more. The ground was soaked, countless mountains had been flattened.
The spectacle truly turned the rivers and seas upside down, magnificent beyond compare. Lin Xiao and the others retreated again and again until they were two or three thousand li away.
Yet even from two or three thousand li, they could still see everything, because the scale was simply too immense.
Moreover, even at that distance, the earth continued to quake, the void continued to shudder, and terrifying oscillatory waves kept radiating from the void fissure.
These were merely the vibrations from the fissure itself, not the shockwaves from the actual attacks. Otherwise, everything within several thousand li would have been obliterated.
Hiss!
However, right after the sea beast dragged the ocean inside, the floating heavenly palace controlled by Lin Xiao suddenly went out of control. It shot forward explosively. As it streaked ahead, it expanded dramatically, instantly growing to a thousand zhang in radius, several times larger than when it first appeared. Dense clouds and restrictive formations swirled around it, radiating rolling fluctuations as it smashed toward the void fissure.
Lin Xiao was stunned. So the floating heavenly palace was also one of the colossal abominations?
Was the treasure reacting on its own to the stimulation, or was someone inside controlling it?
Cold sweat drenched his back. Fortunately, the palace had not attacked him.
Otherwise, he would probably already be reduced to flying ash.
Not only Lin Xiao, even Long Tutian and the Martial Saints of the other two great powers were dumbfounded.
They had been prepared to fight to the death for the floating heavenly palace, yet it turned out to be another of the ten colossal abominations attacking the void fissure?
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Heaven and earth shook violently for a full hour. Only after an entire hour did the commotion finally cease.
During that hour, nobody dared to move, and nobody dared to charge into the void fissure.
With the addition of the floating heavenly palace, ten directions of colossal abominations had launched their assaults. Apart from the Martial Saints, anyone who entered would probably be reduced to dust by the aftershocks alone.
Even the Martial Saints would likely suffer severe injuries or possibly perish inside.
Therefore, none of the three Martial Saints dared to rush in rashly.
After the disturbance ended, another full hour passed, yet still nobody made a move.
“Elder Xi, why don’t we send someone in to scout?” someone from the Ji family suggested.
As soon as the words left their mouth, everyone from the Ji family involuntarily shivered.
Sending someone in to look was fine in theory. The interior might be a profound domain, and now that the noise had stopped, those abominations might have fought their way deep inside.
But who would they send?
What if the abominations had not gone far and were still near the entrance, with no sound escaping due to spatial distortion?
Going in would mean certain death.
Or what if some greater terror had occurred and all ten colossal abominations had perished?
Though unlikely, it was not impossible.
Ji Lian swept his gaze across them, making the Ji family members shudder. It was not that they were cowardly; the earlier scene had simply been too overwhelming.
Then Ji Lian’s gaze shifted to Zhan Meng and the people of Sacred Heaven Gate.
The members of Sacred Heaven Gate also felt their hearts tremble.
The unaffiliated cultivators fell silent, inwardly panicking.
What if Ji Lian forced them to go in?
They did not believe any great opportunity awaited that would let them snatch something from ten colossal abominations.
Zhan Meng said nothing, merely looking toward Long Tutian and the Canglong Gate group.
“Let’s wait a bit longer,” Long Tutian said with arms folded, showing no intention of entering.
The higher one’s cultivation, the more clearly one perceived the terror of those ten abominations. Entering at the wrong moment would spell danger even for them.
Hearing this, the Ji family and Sacred Heaven Gate also abandoned the idea of sending scouts.
Entering the void fissure was not necessarily as simple as stepping through the entrance, confirming it was safe, and stepping back out.
Who knew whether one could retreat in time? Who knew whether entering would immediately teleport someone deeper inside?
If that happened and they encountered the battle or any of the abominations, they would be in mortal danger.
Even if they met nothing, they could not return quickly to report.
Everything about entering that void fissure was unknown.
Moreover, they could not easily force members of other powers or the unaffiliated cultivators to go in. Doing so would damage their reputation and breed resentment.
At a critical moment later, those people might turn against them.
It had not yet reached the point where forcing others inside was necessary.
Boom!
Just then, a thunderous sound rang out. A massive ancient city a hundred li across burst out from the long void fissure.
The city exuded an aura of countless ages. Large sections of its walls were ruined, and most of the buildings inside had collapsed.
Most importantly, only one figure remained in the entire city: a single ugly middle-aged man, covered in blood, standing on the city wall and urgently driving the city onward. He fled in panic and extreme distress.
“Shriek!”
The ugly middle-aged man let out a shrill, piercing cry. Then he urged the enormous city to speed away across the horizon, swiftly vanishing from everyone’s sight.
