The barrier of the martial stage shattered, terrifying all the cultivators in the stands. Not even the leaders of the greatest sects, at the absolute peak of Celestial cultivation, could do that in a single move.
Only a few managed to see a multicolored light colliding like a flash, and then everything broke.
If they were hit by that… would they have any chance of surviving?
The explosion was so violent that the shockwaves would've definitely killed the weaker ones off guard. But fortunately, runic currents appeared around the martial stage, like a dome. Those runes weren't purely defensive, meant to block; their purpose was to absorb energy in emergency situations, dispersing everything outside the arena.
No one ever imagined something like that would be used one day, but it ended up saving many lives. In the end, everyone only felt a heavy impact, and some spat a bit of blood.
