116: A giant hand, full of dangers

He endured his injuries, summoned his temporary Flying Sword, and shakily ascended into the sky, speeding in the direction he remembered coming from, which was away from the seven-colored light pillar.

The Flying Sword's Spiritual Light was dim, and flying through the turbulent Spiritual Pressure currents was like rowing against a strong current, incredibly difficult.

The destructive scene behind him did not lessen; instead, it intensified. Not only did the seven-colored light pillar not dissipate, but at its base, in the direction of Gold Phoenix Pool, another anomaly arose!

A thick, incomparably pure black energy, profound to the extreme, appeared from an unknown source, striking the Foundation of the seven-colored light pillar like a demonic spear from beyond the heavens!

Boom!!!!

An indescribable collision erupted! The terrifying, completely different energies of seven colors and pitch black furiously intertwined, annihilated, and devoured each other! Forming an enormous energy vortex of immeasurable diameter!

As soon as this vortex formed, it emitted a terrifying suction force that seemed to devour everything! Not only matter, but even light, Spiritual Qi, and even Divine Sense seemed to be pulled into it!

Even though Lin Feng had flown a certain distance, he still felt his body stiffen, and a powerful, irresistible suction force came from behind him, pulling at his Flying Sword, trying to drag him towards the destructive vortex!

His face instantly turned incredibly grim. He frantically channeled the remaining Spiritual Power within him, even burning his Qi and blood, to desperately struggle against the pull with his Flying Sword in the opposite direction!

The Flying Sword groaned under the strain, but its speed inevitably slowed, and it even began to be dragged backward little by little!

He looked back, only to see that the core area of Gold Phoenix Pool had already become a living hell!

Those Cultivators who were originally searching for treasures by the pool, or who were stunned in place by the anomaly, now became the most tragic beings. They were like fallen leaves in a hurricane, helplessly sucked up by the giant vortex. Their terrified screams and desperate shouts were instantly drowned out by the roar of the energy!

A Nascent Soul (Middle Stage) Cultivator desperately summoned a shield Magical Artifact. The shield's Spiritual Light merely flickered once before it, along with him, was torn into pieces, swept into the depths of the vortex, and vanished.

Several Cultivators, seemingly from the same sect, tried to form a Formation to resist. The Formation's light shield instantly burst like a soap bubble, and the Cultivators, like grasshoppers strung together, were dragged into the darkness with screams.

Even more, some were directly hit by the chaotic energy currents, their bodies exploding on the spot, turning into a bloody mist, which was then completely devoured!

Screams, explosions, energy roars... intertwined into a tragic elegy of the apocalypse. The vortex was like a primordial Vicious Beast opening its giant maw, greedily devouring all life within its range!

And its range was still expanding at a visible speed! The suction force grew stronger and stronger!

Lin Feng's scalp tingled, and his soul nearly fled his body!

He desperately urged his Flying Sword, pushing its speed to the limit, not even caring if it would aggravate his injuries, only wanting to escape the range of the suction as quickly as possible.

However, he despairingly found that not only could he not advance, but his speed of retreat was getting faster and faster!

The Flying Sword's Spiritual Light rapidly dimmed under the suction and his desperate urging, clearly on the verge of being completely scrapped!

"No!" Lin Feng roared unwillingly in his heart, his thoughts racing, contemplating a way to escape.

Just at this moment—

In the center of that massive, chaotic energy vortex, another anomaly occurred!

A hand!

A gigantic hand, indescribably enormous, suddenly reached out from the deepest darkness!

This hand was not made of flesh and blood, but was condensed from the purest, constantly churning black energy mixed with dark red destructive lightning!

It was covered in ancient and sinister runes, its fingernails were sharp as mountains, and its palm seemed to contain tiny, perishing stars!

Its size even surpassed that of the giant vortex!

Just a part of it reaching out obscured a large portion of the sky that Lin Feng could see! A pressure far more terrifying and despair-inducing than the Spiritual Pressure of heaven and earth, a pressure stemming from an absolute crushing at the level of life itself, instantly enveloped the world!

The target of this giant hand did not seem to be anyone specific; it simply and casually, aimlessly, reached out and grabbed fiercely at the area within the vortex's suction range!

This grab felt as if it had clutched space itself in its palm!

Lin Feng felt the space around him instantly solidify!

Time seemed to stop flowing!

He watched with wide eyes as that giant hand, covering heaven and earth, descended towards his direction! Its speed seemed slow, but in reality, it was faster than thought!

He wanted to struggle, to scream, to unleash all his trump cards! But in front of this incomprehensible existence, he couldn't even move a finger! Even his thoughts were almost crushed by that terrifying pressure!

The next moment!

The giant palm closed!

Lin Feng felt his vision go black, and an irresistible force, capable of crushing stars, enveloped him! He seemed to hear his bones groaning under the unbearable pressure, and all the blood in his body felt like it was being squeezed out!

Then, the world spun!

He was firmly gripped by that giant hand, and then, at an unimaginable speed, was fiercely dragged, instantly plunging into the massive energy vortex, which spun wildly and exuded endless destructive aura!

Coldness, chaos, tearing, crushing... various indescribable pains instantly overwhelmed his consciousness.

In the instant before completely losing consciousness, he vaguely felt that as he plunged into the deepest part of the vortex, the surrounding destructive energy seemed to suddenly change, transforming into a kind of extremely ancient, extremely complex Formation power with strong spatial fluctuations? But this feeling flashed by, so quickly that he thought it was an illusion.

Darkness completely swallowed him.

...

The energy vortex continued to spin madly, devouring everything.

The giant hand had long since disappeared.

Only the destructive anomaly continued to unfold above Golden Marrow Island, reflecting the ruined world.