Chapter 1132: Chapter 1088: Sealing Heaven Finger
Chapter 1132: Chapter 1088: Sealing Heaven Finger
Chen Fei was shocked as he perceived the godly soul’s scream, his mastery of space secondary rules allowing him to estimate that the range of this scream was extraordinarily vast.
A message from the Peak of Rule Integration Realm could travel over a thousand miles, and with some special methods, the distance could be even greater.
However, in comparison to the current scream, there was almost no comparability.
Chen Fei watched the ripples that swept across the Celestial Wood, and suddenly his expression changed dramatically as a powerful suction force appeared out of nowhere.
Instinctively, all of Chen Fei’s power burst forth, and in that instant, he forcibly resisted the suction.
Chen Fei looked up slightly, his mental defense sensing ripples of the powerful suction force within a radius of a thousand miles, and perhaps even beyond.
In other words, this force was not limited to this area, but spanned a very large range.
What kind of measure was this?
Chen Fei wanted to completely break free from the suction and fly towards the sky, but the next moment, a gigantic finger too large to imagine appeared above the Celestial Wood.
Wherever the finger passed, it turned into pure blackness.
It was total darkness, affecting not just sight but also mental perception, in that sea of black it seemed as if even the rules disappeared.
“Boom!”
Like a heartbeat, Chen Fei perceived violent upheavals in the earth’s crust throughout the Black Stone Domain, as a grey pillar of light shot into the sky from the distance.
The size and distance of the pillar of light were unknown to Chen Fei, as his eyes could see it, yet his mental defense couldn’t reach it.
“Buzz!”
Countless ripples spread out in all directions from the grey pillar of light as the center, covering the entire Black Stone Domain in almost no time.
It’s unknown how much time passed, maybe an instant, maybe several hours, as the concept of time was blurred here.
The entire world turned dark and bleak, and as Chen Fei scanned his surroundings, he saw only black and white colors in the dull Celestial Wood.
The suction force that had been dragging Chen Fei had long since vanished, but his mental defense was still fluctuating.
What was that Sealing Heaven Finger just now, an Eighth Rank Expert, or a Ninth Rank Supreme?
Could a cultivator’s power truly reach such a level?
And what about that grey pillar of light, the Black Stone Domain seems to have become somewhat eerie.
“Chen Fei!”
Due to the abnormality in the world, the Rules trembled violently; Yan Yishun broke free from most of Chen Fei’s constraints and also turned back to clearly see Chen Fei’s appearance.
Yan Yishun’s eyes widened in shock; he had thought that the one who captured him might be a strong member of the Evil Clans or that the human imperial sovereign had discovered his betrayal of the human race.
Yan Yishun never imagined that the one who left him powerless would be Chen Fei, who had only broken through to the Rule Integration Realm a few years ago.
Chen Fei was known for his extraordinary talent throughout the human race, but Yan Yishun was at the mid-stage Rule Integration Realm.
Yan Yishun knew that Chen Fei would catch up to his Cultivation Realm one day, and maybe even surpass him, but that was supposed to be in the future.
How could Chen Fei possess such tremendous strength? What in the world was going on?
Yan Yishun’s voice pulled Chen Fei back from his shock; Chen Fei turned to look at Yan Yishun and the space constraints that had been partially broken tightened once again.
Yan Yishun’s complexion changed drastically, he opened his mouth, about to say something, but an immense surge of space force had already descended upon him.
“Bang!”
A muffled sound, and Yan Yishun’s body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
For such traitors within the human race, direct execution was the answer; no amount of cunning defense could change the actions Yan Yishun had committed.
Taking Yan Yishun’s spiritual essence and mystical treasures into his sleeve, Chen Fei looked up at the greyish atmosphere between heaven and earth, his left hand moved, capturing some vital energy of heaven and earth into his hand.
“It’s thinning…”
Chen Fei’s brow furrowed slightly; the concentration of vital energy in the surrounding heaven and earth was decreasing.
Although not rapidly, the downward trend was quite clear.
A short time later, Chen Fei returned to the newly established Jiguang City, where some residents were in a state of panic; the Sealing Heaven Finger and the grey pillar of light were not only seen by Chen Fei but by all the residents of the city.
And the drastic changes in the world were perceived by everyone.
In the Wu Meng Clan’s territory.
“I never expected that there would truly be remnants of the ancient Devouring Yuan Clan’s work buried here,” Wu Shihui said with a shocked expression, looking towards where the grey pillar of light had been.
As an Open Heaven Realm Middle Stage expert, there were few things that could surprise Wu Shihui.
Even as the Xuan Clan pursued him to the Black Stone Domain, Wu Shihui’s attitude had been calm throughout.
It was just a matter of dealing with the situation as it arose, continuing with his intended actions.
But the Sealing Heaven Finger falling from the sky and that towering pillar of light had shaken Wu Shihui’s mind.
Because both events were far beyond his power, perhaps unreachable in his lifetime, and yet now they had materialized before him, deeply stirring Wu Shihui’s soul.
“The Devouring Clan? That powerful race that tried to devour everything in order to complete its own leap?”
Upon hearing Wu Shihui’s words, the other cultivators of the Wu Meng Clan in the Open Heaven Realm couldn’t help but show a look of shock on their faces.
The reputation of the Devouring Clan was known to every Seventh Rank Race, as they were involved in some of the most famous wars in the Return to Nothing Realm over the last hundreds of thousands of years.
To call them wars, however, was almost a misnomer; they were more like one-sided slaughters.
And the ones being slaughtered were the Devouring Clan.
Aside from those newly advanced Seventh Rank Races, nearly all races in the Return to Nothing Realm, Seventh Rank and above, knew a law: do not try to break through to the Ninth Rank.
Once you make such a move, a terrifying disaster will befall your race.
And the disaster comes from those Supreme Ninth Rank Races.
Within the Return to Nothing Realm, the Ninth Rank Supreme Races control everything; they decide the life and death of any race, and no race can defy them.
To defy them is to invite an extremely miserable outcome.
Of course, the vast majority of races don’t even get the chance to encounter the supreme races, and these supreme races have no interest in giving more than a glance to ordinary races.
The Devouring Clan once attempted to force their way into the Ninth Rank, but ultimately they fell short.
Subsequently, the various resources within the Devouring Clan were divided up by the other Eighth Rank Races, and some Seventh Rank Races also managed to get a share of the spoils.
The Open Heaven cultivators of the Wu Meng Clan did not expect that within this remote Black Stone Domain, there would be the workings of the Devouring Clan from those days.
No wonder the Soul-devouring Worms came here; they were originally drawn to the traces left by the Devouring Clan.
Within the Black Stone Domain, the Devouring Clan must have set something up, perhaps thinking of making a comeback, or something else.
But it seems that all of it was within the sight of the Ninth Rank Supreme Races, nothing could escape their eyes.
That Sealing Heaven Finger from before, the Open Heaven cultivators of the Wu Meng Clan couldn’t discern the realm of the expert who took action, but obviously, it had thoroughly destroyed whatever the Devouring Clan had left behind.
As for what has become of the Black Stone Domain after the Devouring Clan’s handiwork was destroyed, those powerful beings clearly didn’t take that into consideration.
This Black Stone Domain is an impoverished and remote location in the Return to Nothing Realm, not even a proper Open Heaven Realm cultivator is here.
The Wu Meng Clan wouldn’t have come here if they were not trying to avoid the Xuan Clan.
Therefore, no powerful race would care about what the Black Stone Domain turns into, even if all living beings here died, the powerful races wouldn’t blink an eye.
“Elder, what should we do now?” the other Open Heaven cultivators of the Wu Meng Clan asked Wu Shihui.
The vital energy of heaven and earth in the Black Stone Domain is obviously declining, and it should be related to the Devouring Clan.
Of course, the vital energy of heaven and earth cannot decline indefinitely; after all, this is the Return to Nothing Realm, and even though it’s remote, the vital energy of heaven and earth is ever-flowing.
The means left by the Devouring Clan, after being washed away over time, will naturally disappear gradually.
But during the time it takes for the Black Stone Domain to return to normal, no one can explain what might happen.
“We can’t get out of the Black Stone Domain now, send the word down to contract our defenses and prepare for impact!”
Wu Shihui looked to the distance where that Sealing Heaven Finger fell, shattering the Devouring Clan’s arrangements and at the same time besieging the entire Black Stone Domain.
The power of one finger, besieging the entire Black Stone Domain, was beyond belief, but the fact remained just so.
With the transformation of the vital energy of heaven and earth within the Black Stone Domain, Wu Shihui saw some peculiar beings appearing.
All these beings emerged from the cracks in space after the grey light pillar burst.
The Devouring Clan’s arrangements in the Black Stone Domain were intricate, but unfortunately, now only these eerie beings were left.
“If we contract our defenses, won’t the Soul-devouring Worms come after us?” Another Open Heaven cultivator furrowed their brows.
There are still Soul-devouring Worms present within the Black Stone Domain now.
“They probably have their own problems to worry about,” Wu Shihui shook his head.
The Soul-devouring Worms came for the Devouring Clan’s legacy, but with the light pillar crushed by that finger, what they can get is hard to say.
The Soul-devouring Worms are known as one of the nine disasters of the Return to Nothing Realm, but that is as it relates to ordinary races; for the supreme races, such a disaster is nothing more than a joke.
Meanwhile, the Xuan Clan had come to a similar conclusion as the Wu Meng Clan; after all, the Xuan Clan was slightly more powerful and had a deeper foundation, so they too began to contract their defenses, preparing to resist those peculiar beings.
The anomaly of the Black Stone Domain did not go unnoticed by the nearby races, mainly because of the boundless Sealing Heaven Finger, which was impossible not to notice.
Many Seventh Rank Races appeared outside the Black Stone Domain in succession, observing the situation inside.
After the grey light pillar was shattered by the Sealing Heaven Finger, the traces of the Devouring Clan were too obvious, and after pondering for a moment, several Seventh Rank expert from other races stepped into the Black Stone Domain.
The barrier formed by the Sealing Heaven Finger trapped those inside, but did not prevent outside beings from entering.
As a once powerful race that attempted to reach the Ninth Rank, the legacy of the Devouring Clan was unimaginable.
Although the resources of the Devouring Clan had long been divided by other powerful races, the newly appeared relics of the Devouring Clan might still hold opportunities.
For those Eighth Rank Races, these remnants of the Devouring Clan seem insignificant, but for Seventh Tier cultivators in the Open Heaven Realm, perhaps the items inside could help them make further progress.