"You want to know? Then I'll grant your wish."
BOOM—
The palm strike was terrifyingly powerful. The surging martial force was vast and boundless, distorting everything in its path as though the very sky were collapsing.
At that moment, everyone present felt an immense pressure bearing down on them —
"Terrifying. This must be the peak of half-emperor — the power closest to that of a Martial Emperor."
Chu Feng couldn't help but marvel. Even though the palm wasn't aimed at him, he could still sense the power contained within it. Before that palm, Chu Feng felt utterly powerless. He wasn't the only one — he was certain that most people present couldn't withstand such force.
In other words, a single palm strike could kill the majority of people on the plaza. To be precise, aside from the Alliance Master of the Spirit World Master Alliance and a handful of supreme experts like
"Whoosh!"
Yet just as the palm's power left countless spectators stunned, the mysterious elder suddenly turned his head and fixed his gaze upon the palm force hurtling down from the sky. That fierce, thunderous strike vanished into thin air — completely and utterly, as though it had never existed in the first place.
"What just happened?"
The abrupt turn of events left everyone dumbfounded. Even Miao Renlong and the others' expressions shifted dramatically, a trace of deep unease surfacing between their brows.
After all, the mysterious elder hadn't done anything at all. He had merely looked at it.
"Trivial trick, and you dare show it off?" Yet while everyone was still frozen in shock, a hand suddenly emerged from the elder's sleeve and grabbed at empty space.
CRACK—
A deafening sound rang out, like a bolt of thunder, though in truth it was the sound of void itself shattering.
Across the vast expanse of sky, countless cracks appeared, spreading out for miles in every direction — a terrifying sight.
And when the void crumbled, the barrier that Chen Sanyuan and Zhao Qinghen had set up shattered along with it. The two of them lurched mid-air, suddenly losing their ability to stay aloft, and plummeted from the sky.
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"Waaah—"
But the moment the two of them drew close to Chen Sanyuan and Zhao Qinghen, they suffered the same fate — losing their power to fly and falling from the sky together with them.
"Alliance Master!!!"
Panic erupted among the Spirit World Master Alliance members. One after another, figures launched themselves into the air, desperate to rescue their leaders.
After all, those four were among the most important figures in the entire Spirit World Master Alliance. If they crashed to the ground, it wouldn't just be a humiliation for the four of them — it would be a humiliation for the whole alliance.
So even at the risk of their own lives, the elders of the Spirit World Master Alliance rushed to help, no matter how feeble their power was compared to what they faced.
In that instant, countless figures appeared across the sky — some wielding martial techniques, others deploying barriers, and some even joining hands to set up formations. They threw everything they had into the struggle, risking their very lives to counteract that eerie, irresistible suction.
Yet without exception, regardless of their realm or their cultivation, anyone who drew near that zone lost all their power as though they were ordinary mortals. They couldn't even manage the simplest act of flight and could only tumble and wail as they fell from the sky.