242: Chapter 242 Natural Disasters and Man-Made Calamities

Jiang Luoli was not the only witness to this disaster.

It was far more than just her.

All of Great Xia was shaken.

The entire world was horrified.

On this day, it felt as if a true apocalypse had descended upon the world without any warning.

...

At the same time.

The piercing wail of the highest-level air raid sirens tore through the skies across every corner of Great Xia with an unprecedented, shrill frequency.

What descended first were the natural disasters.

This terrifying, unprecedented earth-shattering cataclysm had already plunged all ordinary people into a state of extreme panic.

Meanwhile, the martial artists realized something after sensing the cracks slowly appearing in the sky, and even in certain regions within Great Xia's territory.

The natural disasters were merely the beginning.

The truly terrifying things had not yet arrived.

...

Imperial Capital, Huaxia Hall of Valor General Command Center.

This hub represented the highest martial authority in Great Xia, a place that remained as steady as Mount Tai even during previous monster tides.

At this moment, it had fallen into absolute chaos.

Those well-known politicians and powerful martial artists—each of whom was significant enough to make a city tremble—were now in a different state.

Currently, they were like fans whose home team had lost two games in a row in a Best-of-5, and the third game was starting with a massive disadvantage.

They didn't even dare to drink water.

Hands clasped, they swallowed nervously, crowding around the massive global psionic monitoring holographic screen that occupied an entire wall.

On the screen, every blue dot represented an abnormal natural disaster.

Red dots represented space-time rifts that had already formed and were slowly developing.

And right now, the screen was almost completely filled with blue dots.

The red dots were not to be outdone, constantly popping up all over the map.

“Beep! Beep! Beep!”

“Warning! Detected a mountain peak with an altitude exceeding five thousand meters rising from underground without warning in the Guannei Plain. Please organize a rescue immediately!”

“Warning! The South China coast has been hit by an unidentified tsunami. Wave heights generally exceed thirty meters, with some coastal areas seeing waves over a hundred meters!”

“Warning! A psionic earthquake of magnitude ten or higher has occurred in the heartland of the Central Plains. Leylines have ruptured, and magma is backflowing!”

A few intern dispatchers, who had recently graduated from Beiqing University, swallowed hard after every sentence they spoke.

Damn it!

They had just graduated as part of the country's most elite group of graduates and achieved their dream of entering such a prestigious unit.

How could they encounter something like this right away!

For a time, reports shouted in voices so hoarse they cracked rose one after another.

Every word was like a heavy hammer, slamming hard against the hearts of all the high-ranking officials present.

An elder with graying hair and a cultivation level that had reached the eleventh stage stared fixedly at the red and blue dots spreading across the screen like a plague.

His entire body trembled.

The purple clay teacup in his hand fell with a 'clatter' and shattered into pieces.

“It's over...”

“It's all over...”

“It's not just the East Sea... and it's not just our Great Xia.”

“This is a global tragedy!”

At the edges of the large screen, real-time shared footage showed the tragic scenes from other nations on Blue Star.

The Holy Light Defense Line that the Western Alliance Knights were so proud of melted like paper under tsunamis hundreds of meters high.

The Sakura Country's sacred Mount Fuji exploded directly from the center.

Countless tons of magma spewed out, and the residents of the small towns at the foot of the sacred mountain looked like they were cosplaying as clay figures.

The ice plains of the Ice Bear Country had completely split open.

Abyssal maws emitting ancient death energy swallowed the martial artist legions known as the 'Steel Torrent' that had looked down upon the world in the previous era.

“This...”

“Where is the Huayu Association?!”

“Where did that cryptic Huayu Association President go?”

“I remember all these anomalies started with the appearance of that monster in the East Sea. And before that monster appeared, that old witch disappeared over the East Sea after preparing to attend our Great Xia's Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony.”

Another high-ranking official roared, his eyes bloodshot as if grasping at the last straw.

After all, that president of the Huayu Association, that stunningly beautiful Witch, was almost unbelievable.

Though she was somewhat eccentric and crazy, she was indeed recognized by the human race of Blue Star as a prophet who was almost never wrong.

She was the one who had originally predicted that a disaster capable of overturning the entire human civilization would soon occur on Blue Star.

It was just that no one believed her at the time.

“As of now, there is no news of Her Excellency...”

“Not only has she not been seen at the Huayu Association headquarters, but even the three Transcendent Heroic Spirit lords who went to the East Sea haven't found any sign of her...”

Despair instantly submerged everyone.

Only at this moment did these high-and-mighty martial artists finally realize a terrifying truth.

It turned out that the reason Blue Star had been able to barely maintain a balance during the tide of Spiritual Energy Recovery all these years was not because they, the conventional martial artists, were so powerful.

It was because everything had not yet reached the 'critical point' mentioned by the Huayu Association President.

Now, she was gone.

And that so-called 'critical point' had finally arrived.

The fragile paper window protecting humanity was completely punctured.

The apocalypse had truly descended.

Compared to the despair of the high-ranking officials, what the people of the mundane world were experiencing was a literal living hell.

On the main roads of the cities, cars collided in chains, and flames soared into the sky.

On the plains, snow-capped mountains thousands of meters high rose without warning, instantly shattering prosperous commercial streets.

Basins collapsed in violent tremors, magma churned, and people were forced to flee their homes, moving toward higher altitudes.

For a time, throughout all of Great Xia and even the entire world, wails of grief were everywhere.

“Mama, help!”

“God... someone please save us...”

Countless people crowded onto rooftops.

These were among the few remaining places that were relatively safe.

They waited for the arrival of rescue martial artists, staring at the sky that had completely changed color and their homes being slowly swallowed by magma.

...

At the same time.

East China Region, Yuhang City.

This beautiful ancient city, hailed as 'Paradise on Earth' since ancient times, was not spared either.

The waters of the Qiantang River let out a deafening roar.

Influenced by the tsunami in the East Sea, the water level of the river connected to it rose continuously.

River water flooded into the city frantically.

The once picturesque streets were now submerged by the murky river water.

Car wreckage and broken trees floated on the water's surface, along with the drifting bodies of unfortunate citizens who hadn't managed to evacuate in time.

By the shore of West Lake, the Broken Bridge, which carried countless romantic legends, had now truly broken from the middle.

Directly above the Broken Bridge, a spatial rift hundreds of feet long hung suspended.

A terrifying aura whistled out from within the rift.

Below the rift, the wild wind whipped up spray across the water.

Two groups of people were in a mid-air standoff across the ruins of the Broken Bridge.

The group on the left consisted entirely of women clad in voluminous black robes.

They were struggling to maintain a tottering spiritual power formation, attempting to seal the spatial rift.