Chapter 1043: Heavenly Troops Enter the City
The Yinglong Warship rose into the sky, departing from Lion City of the Jawa Kingdom and heading toward Thanglong Prefecture of the Yu Kingdom at full speed in a straight line, so much so that the journey took two hours.
At that moment, Thanglong Prefecture was in chaos. Outside the city, a massive sinkhole had appeared out of nowhere. There was no meteor strike, nor an earthquake. The sinkhole that was nearly half the size of Guijian Lake simply manifested silently.
Fortunately, the sinkhole had formed in a remote, uninhabited area, so there were no casualties or property loss. Yet those in the know whispered that an ancient tomb lay beneath the ground. Now, every brick and stone had vanished, but the pit had expanded far beyond its original boundaries.
The sinkhole seemed to have formed atop the old tomb, as if the earth itself had hollowed it out.
At the bottom of the pit, a blood-red lake rippled faintly. If the pit was a colossal bowl, then that lake was the dregs of water pooled at its base.
Now, the lake’s surface lay eerily empty.
Only Xu Jiaorong knew the truth. Had it not been for Wu Luo’s divine kingdom that absorbed most of the unleashed power, the resulting destruction would have been catastrophic.
It would have been like the Yunjin Mountain disaster that occurred 200 years ago. The Deposed Heavenly Preceptor had conspired with Song Zheng and others in rebellion. Infuriated, the Holy Xuan unleashed the fourth stage of the Taiyi Supreme Technique, severing part of Yunjin Mountain’s earth veins, triggering vast earthquakes that toppled peaks and even collapsed a part of the Dazhen Mansion. Due to this, the terrain in Yunjin Mountain was forever changed. Though the Zhengyi Sect later worked to restore the original state of the mountain, they failed to do so, leaving the mountain’s terrain complex.
By comparison, today’s event was merciful because this sinkhole did not harm the earth veins.
Even so, the appearance of the pit could not escape the eyes of the Daoist Mansion. Before long, speculations spread that the sinkhole was connected to Great Sage Lan.
The reasoning was simple. Normally, earthquakes and meteor strikes both leave fractured traces, but this pit was too smooth, as if a chunk of the earth had been cleanly erased from existence. Such an effect matched the Taiyi Supreme Technique, the power to reduce everything to Primordial Chaos.
Every senior Daoist priest knew about the Five Innate Tais, and across all of Poluo’s Daoist Mansion, only Great Sage Lan had ever mastered the Taiyi Supreme Technique.