Just as he was thinking that Ample Time was crazy, he suddenly heard a faint sound, like the flutter of autumn cicadas’ wings, carried on the air currents from a great distance.1

Before he could make out what the sound was, a shocking scene imprinted itself in his pupils.0

A long, thick column of smoke pierced through the layers of fog, followed immediately by a thunderous roar like a mountain crashing into the sea, sweeping across the entire wilderness.0

Orange-red flames bloomed like a mandala flower. The second it did, trees were uprooted, hills were leveled, and shards of stone and splinters of wood scattered like shrapnel, hurled into the sky by the scorching blast.0

The solid earth rippled in waves like a boiling lake, lifted by the blazing shockwave…0

Li Jinrong and Xiao Yue stared, dumbfounded, at the towering flames consuming everything in the distance, the...0