«Mom, it’s going to rain! Hurry out and get the laundry!» In a certain part of the Sui Prefecture, a little girl shouted loudly from within the courtyard.
«Nonsense! You’re trying to trick Mom again. Look at the sky—it’s perfectly clear, not a single cloud that suggests rain!» A middle-aged woman stepped out of the house, looked up at the bright sky, then glared at her child and scolded her angrily.
«No, I’m not! Mom, look, look! It’s really going to rain! Those huge dark clouds definitely mean rain!» The little girl bounced on her feet, her face full of grievance as she pointed behind her mother.
The woman turned around half-suspiciously and looked. In the direction of the Sword God Valley, a vast patch of pitch-black clouds had indeed appeared. Her expression changed drastically in an instant because those clouds were far too strange—so unnaturally strange that they were terrifying.
The clouds were incredibly black, like ink, and covered a vast expanse, absolutely blanketing a portion of the world. They didn’t move but hovered in place.
They writhed, like some colossal monster—grotesque and horrifying. Just one glance sent chills down the spine and filled one with unease.
«Ah!» Suddenly, from a not-too-distant courtyard, came a woman’s scream, crying out in alarm at the sight. What was that? How terrifying!
«Waaah, Mom, Mom!» Immediately after, from another courtyard, came a little boy’s wailing cry, accompanied by shouts for his mother.
«Xiao Yun, be a good girl, don’t look. Quickly, go inside the house.» Seeing this, the woman, who had no cultivation at all, grew frightened too. She knew the people nearby were all terrified by the dark clouds.
So she hugged her little girl and darted back inside the house, closing and even locking the windows and doors without bothering to collect the laundry.
In truth, everyone within a thousand miles of the Sword God Valley had seen the clouds. They were far too eerie. Not only did the ordinary, non-cultivating civilians notice, but even the powerful experts with deep cultivation levels, upon seeing these clouds, furrowed their brows and felt their minds uneasy.
«How can this be? How could that Chu Feng be so terrifying? This aura… I really can’t withstand it.»
Suddenly, someone’s legs went soft, and they collapsed to their knees. Chu Feng’s aura grew stronger and stronger, almost engulfing this entire region. Even though he wasn’t deliberately suppressing anyone, people simply couldn’t resist this pressure.
Following that, large groups of people began falling to their knees. Some even fainted directly. After losing consciousness, some actually began convulsing on the ground.
«Chu Feng, what’s wrong? Are you okay?! Chu Feng, answer me! Don’t scare me!!!»
At this moment, even Zi Ling panicked. She was the closest to Chu Feng and thus the one most able to experience just how terrifying he currently was.
To ask how terrifying Chu Feng was right now—even she, possessing the Heaven-Adorned Body, felt a deep unease. Her Heaven-Adorned Divine Power was stirring restlessly, seemingly disturbed by Chu Feng’s power. Most importantly, this was the first time Zi Ling had ever felt her Heaven-Adorned Divine Power react this way.
But her dominant emotion was worry, for she realized that Chu Feng had changed—not just his eyes, but his entire being. The feeling was unlike the Chu Feng she knew. In fact, ever since Chu Feng began his transformation, he had only been staring ferociously at the Sword God Valley Ancestor in the distance. He hadn’t looked at Zi Ling even once.
*Step.* Suddenly, Chu Feng moved. He began to advance, walking slowly toward the direction of the Sword God Valley Ancestor. As he walked, he spoke, and his voice, like rolling thunder, echoed between heaven and earth.
«There will come a day when this sky will shatter because of me, when this earth will sink because of me, when the sun, moon, and stars will change because of me.»
«If on that day, my beloved is no longer here, then I will make every last one of the billions of beings under these heavens perish with her!»
*Boom!* The moment Chu Feng finished speaking, the lightning around his body surged wildly. The dark clouds in the sky began to spin at an accelerated pace, and fierce winds howled, forcing people to shield their eyes. Those with slightly stronger cultivation could manage, but those weaker were simply unable to withstand the gale and were blown away like scarecrows, tumbling through the air.