Tuo Xun was already very terrified, his face lost blood color sensing energy fluctuations threatening to tear the dimensional structure of the Hundun Realm. The vibration propagating on the ground was not an ordinary earthquake, but the groan of dimensional plates unable to withstand the load of foreign energy that was too dense. He was not afraid of the Vice General's breakthrough. He was afraid of the impact that would fall below, of what would not choose victims if the sky vented its remaining anger. As the ruler of this realm, he could feel the silent scream from the ground he stepped on. If that lightning missed or exploded too strongly, half the defense infrastructure in this barracks would become ash in an instant. In his mind, the protection of the barracks and cities was one unit. If one cracked, then everything would be torn along. “Damn, his Divine Calamity is even more terrifying than when I broke through to True God Ruler. I must think of a way to protect everyone.”

Under the shield, thousands of Cosmos Array soldiers watching felt cold creep from toe to head. They were Half True God Ruler realm cultivators, figures respected in the outside world, yet at this moment their guts shrank into a speck of dust in front of the true power of nature. A combination of awe and horror churned their stomachs. They saw a reflection of themselves there, imagining if the position was swapped, whether they possessed even half of that madness. Some of them stared at their own hands, as if wanting to ensure their bodies were still intact. Others stared up without blinking, for fear if they looked away for one moment, they would miss the decisive point. “Terrifying,” hissed one of the Cosmos Array soldiers, his hand clenching tightly until his nails dug into his palm. “If I stood there, one strike from that dragon would be enough to exterminate my soul without a trace.” That confession came out with a low tone, a validation of their own helplessness. The senten

With remaining body already shapeless, he used his last momentum to hit that Qilin's chest, channeling every drop of life desire and ambition into one finishing attack, a final gamble against death. He no longer counted techniques. He locked entire existence on one push that could not be pulled back. His shattered body became the final weapon, crashing into the energy stability core of that lightning creature. “Destroy!” he roared with last remaining strength, his voice overcoming lightning rumble. That word did not sound like an ordinary shout. It sounded like an order forced out from a will having no room to lose. The sound wave of his shout mixed with the Divine Energy explosion from inside his cracked dantian. BOOOM! The sky seemed to collapse. That Qilin beast howled tragically before its massive energy body cracked and exploded into pieces, destroyed by the unyielding determination of the human challenging it. Energy shards scattered, yet were held in the same space, like s

Tuo Xun widened his eyes, breath held in throat. He stared at the Vice General like staring at someone suddenly bringing new rules into the world he understood all this time. He saw the Vice General's aura already changed, saw his body already whole, and now saw the sentence “eight months” like a chasm appearing in the middle of logic. The Cosmos Array soldiers looked at each other with deadly pale faces, their brains trying to process that contradictory information. Some of them had recalculated in heart, weighing one by one second they witnessed earlier, then crashing it with eight months just spoken. No way to equalize both. Cold sweat began dripping on commanders' foreheads. That time difference was not merely perception error, it was terrifying cosmic law manipulation. City rulers just arriving held their breath, not daring to produce sound in front of this big mystery. They came with burning ambition, but now that ambition mixed with caution. They did not want to be people sp

Not long after, the sky above the Cloud Array Barracks was filled with continuous space distortions, as if the fabric of reality was being forcibly pulled from various directions. The tear lines did not appear simultaneously, but alternately, one finished, another followed, forming a rhythm of arrival making the soldiers still around the barracks immediately understand that this was not an ordinary visit.​The air vibrated with a low frequency painful to the ears, signaling that those coming were entities capable of manipulating space laws with their own will.​Those who witnessed the Divine Calamity earlier had not fully arranged their breath, but now they held back again, keeping distance, and letting the strong figures descend without any careless movement.​Atmospheric pressure increased sharply. If previously the pressure came from an angry sky, now the pressure came from a collection of egos and powers that ruled various corners of the Hundun Realm all this time.​Hundreds of fi