Chapter 713 - 217: [Divine Retribution]
Chapter 217 [Heaven’s Wrath] (6200 words)
Crossing the Evil Land Mountain, emerging from the vast sea of trees, one must traverse the endless snowfield to reach Snow Cliff Pass.
Yet this snowfield is not actually a land mass, but rather...an immense lake spanning hundreds of miles.
Due to the extreme cold here, the lake’s surface froze, turning into a vast icefield.
After years of relentless snowstorms, accumulated snow piled up on the ice, eventually forming the snowfield as it is now.
When Chen Yan and Gu Jinjia escaped from Evil Land Mountain, they emerged from the boundless Evil Spirit Tree sea of trees and walked together on this snowfield for many days—they even broke through the ice to fish for food.
And at this moment, the ice surface has collapsed!
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If there were eyes looking down from the sky at this snowfield, one would see...
The vast snowfield shaking gently, twisting, and colliding with the ground.
The cracking sounds of twisting ice blocks seemed to become the main theme of heaven and earth at this moment.
The Fierce Beast Race’s army, originally gathered very close to Snow Cliff Pass, at the "Safe Zone", where there was a trace of Primordial Qi present.
This area spans approximately over twenty miles.
Beyond this area, into the depths of the snowfield, heading towards Evil Land Mountain and the sea of trees, is an area devoid of Primordial Qi.
The army of the Fierce Beast Race advanced and gathered, scattered mostly within the former safe zone, and behind them was an expanse of icefield, devoid of Primordial Qi.
Yet it was precisely this zone that underwent a dramatic transformation at that moment!
A series of continuous explosions had previously erupted, from the icefield above, each mysterious blast shattered the ice surface, creating small collapses in spots across the area.
Gradually, countless points exploded and fractured the ice surface, accumulating energy to its peak before setting off a massive chain reaction!
The entire ice layer of the lake began to crack in large sections, large areas fracturing!
As the earth’s ice layer spread in cracks, the heart-stopping sound of thunderous cracking seemed to ring a haunting death knell!
More than two-thirds of the icefield shattered like a mirror struck by an invisible hammer, pulverized into countless fragments large and small!
From ice blocks stretching miles long to those merely meters wide, suddenly without support, they tore away from their previous bounds, large chunks tilting and collapsing, while smaller fragments drifted slowly across the water surface, becoming floating ice on the lake.
Some of the Fierce Beast Race wandering the snowfield suddenly found the thick snowfield beneath their feet transformed into a capsizing ice raft with the rupturing, and as the ice tilted, they plunged into the lake with screams of terror!
Soon submerged in the frigid lake waters, disappearing without a trace.
Whole sled teams racing across the snowfield barely ahead of the cracking ice, but the sledge’s speed couldn’t outrun the rupturing ice; within moments, the entire team fell into the waters below, overturned by shifting ice, soon vanishing without a trace...
This colossal upheaval between heaven and earth lasted nearly an hour!
The crushing sounds reflected the celestial mighty force displaying its power, forcing most of the ground’s Fierce Beast Race to cower on the snow, silently awaiting their ultimate fate from above—with a thundering seismic sound, they could barely stand.
Of course, a few with a ferocious and restless nature, or bold ones, wouldn’t lie down waiting for death, but howled and fled in all directions—instinct told them remaining was not a clever choice.
Yet such Fierce Beast Race often fled like headless flies—those running back quickly disappeared into the boundless blizzard.
Running forward...towards Snow Cliff Pass, soon perished under the raining arrows falling from the fortress!
After an hour-long turmoil, the snowfield seemed to sink into a death-like silence! The wild wind itself even came to a standstill.
Each Fierce Beast Race could only hear their own rapid breathing and pounding heartbeats.
When everything finally settled into calm, did some of the Fierce Beast Race gather the courage to cautiously rise from the ground.
Subsequently, more and more Fierce Beast Race arose nervously, looking at their comrades around, gazing at the heavens, gazing afar...
They began to utter cries of terror.
Because some Fierce Beast Race observed, right beneath our feet, the ice layer of the ground had twisted and deformed.
This land, once a flat base, now bore twisted ice blocks pressing down, raising snow hills, and cracks spreading here, the once flat ground now appeared as giant chasms, coiling like serpents upon the earth!
Then, some of the Fierce Beast Race noticed, amidst the recent earthquake, after the ice had split, companions had plunged within the crevices, swept into the churning lake beneath, vanished without a trace...