I Can See Through All Things' Information Chapter 1284 - 784: Earth-Shattering—A Sword Splits the City
Previously on I Can See Through All Things' Information...
"Not good!"
A profound terror surged through the heart of the white-haired elder with the youthful visage as he beheld the gleaming "thin line" plummeting downward.
Though he yearned to halt its advance, he discovered he lacked even the slightest bravery to confront it head-on.
His Primordial Spirit Realm instincts screamed at him to evade this "thin line" at all costs.
Direct confrontation would surely lead to his demise, leaving no chance for survival!
Thus, the white-haired elder with the youthful face could merely stare in astonishment while the potent "thin line" hurtled toward Zhou Tian City, carrying the force to cleave the sky and earth asunder.
Swish!
Despite the apparent intricacy, the entire event unfolded in a mere instant.
The radiant "thin line" seemed to drift down leisurely, yet it struck with astonishing velocity.
From the elder's first glimpse to its complete traversal, scarcely a single breath passed.
With a swift swish, structures, walls, formations, and earth alike stood powerless against this "thin line."
Not even the luminous array formation barrier that perpetually shielded the Inner City could endure its assault.
It cut through effortlessly, like slicing soft bean curd.
The "thin line" buried itself into the soil, and in the following moment, its immense energy burst forth, quaking the earth and distant peaks.
Zhou Tian City itself started to shudder, the rift from the "thin line" causing it to slowly divide toward opposite directions.
"What's going on, is it an earthquake?"
"Are you blind? This is Zhou Tian City; earthquakes don't strike here!"
"Then why's everything shaking like this?"
"Maybe it's tied to that beam of light that dropped from the heavens?"
"Are we being invaded?"
"Over there—the Inner City's array formation barrier just disappeared!"
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With the quakes persisting, panic gripped the residents of Zhou Tian City, leaving them bewildered by the chaos.
A massive metropolis such as Zhou Tian City, the unassailable bastion of the Gongshu Family, was safeguarded by a Supreme Array.
By all reason, not even a genuine seismic event should rattle this sprawling expanse, which extended over a thousand miles.
Yet the current ground tremors and the sudden vanishing of the Inner City's array formation barrier filled everyone with profound dread.
They couldn't fathom what had shifted so drastically.
"Was that Sword Qi earlier? Impossible..."
In the skies over the Inner City, the white-haired elder with the youthful face gazed downward, completely stunned.
His elevated position allowed him a sharper view of the recent catastrophe.
That luminous "thin line" proved to be a supremely condensed Sword Qi.
This Sword Qi rent the heavens and earth, its edge incomparably keen.
No element in Zhou Tian City managed to impede it in the least.
The Circulation Star Array barrier enveloping the Inner City was utterly demolished by this horrifying Sword Qi.
Zhou Tian City had been cleaved into twin sections by this slender Sword Qi.
Buried deep beneath, the Sword Qi detonated, compelling the divided halves of Zhou Tian City to drift even farther asunder.
This explained the sensation of the whole city quivering among its inhabitants.
"Who could that be?"
Gazing upon Zhou Tian City, now parting along its central line and continuing to separate, the white-haired elder with the youthful face felt his soul quake.
He lifted his eyes toward the firmament.
To rend apart a behemoth like Zhou Tian City, fortified by a mighty Big Array, in one devastating blow defied his wildest thoughts.
Such overwhelming might lay far beyond the grasp of a typical Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.
Not even their Eight Tribulations Ancestor, who roamed the cosmos, possessed the capability for this.
Only a fabled Nine Tribulations Primordial Spirit, that elusive dragon glimpsed only in part, might pull off such a miracle.
But when had the Gongshu Family ever crossed paths with such a formidable being?
"Dad!"
"Father! What's occurring?"
At that moment, several auras of Primordial Spirit Realm powerhouses emerged from the Inner City, arriving beside the white-haired elder.
These were the Gongshu Family's ancestors, evidently roused by the abrupt turmoil.
Assembling in the air, they peered below and spotted the sword scar stretching across all of Zhou Tian City, now broadened to dozens of feet, filling them with horror.
"Dad, what's all this?"
One of the Primordial Spirit Realm experts demanded right away.
However, they noticed their father fixed in a trance, staring skyward as though beholding some nightmarish sight, frozen in disbelief.
They swiftly traced their father's line of sight upward.
And there, a silhouette was drifting down languidly from the heights, silhouetted against the glow.
The figure clutched a lengthy sword, draped in a dark cloak, his features concealed by an eerie Ghost Face Mask.
No aura emanated from him, akin to a spectral shadow.
Yet the Gongshu Family ancestors instantly identified him as the very intruder who, years prior, had breached Zhou Tian City, slain Lao Qi, and looted the second family's Treasure Vault.
"Look up—figures in the sky! It's the Gongshu Family ancestors!"
"Who's confronting them? Did he trigger the shaking?"
"That garb matches the killer of the Gongshu Seventh Ancestor from years back; he's back!"
"Didn't the Gongshu Clan Leader supposedly eliminate that assassin long ago? How's he here now?"
The auras radiating from the Gongshu Family ancestors at last drew the gaze of the populace below.
Spotting the figure lowering from above, recollections from decades past flared anew, sparking widespread commotion.
That time, the havoc wrought by this person in Zhou Tian City had been colossal.
Not just the assassination of the Gongshu Seventh Ancestor, but also the slaying of multiple Primordial Spirit Realm figures from the Outer City at his hands.
Thus, even after countless years, myriad residents retained crystal-clear memories.
And upon catching sight of that ebony cloak and Ghost Face Mask, recognition dawned immediately.
Though tales claimed the Gongshu Clan Leader had felled the assassin years before, current events suggested those stories held falsehoods.
"You thief, how dare you show your face..."
As Lu Qing approached from the heavens, one Gongshu Family ancestor bellowed in fury, readying an assault.
But midway through his words, a Sword Qi loomed large before his eyes.
In the blink that followed, darkness claimed him, awareness lost forever.
The remainder of his outburst lodged in his throat, unspoken eternally.
For Lu Qing's conjured Sword Qi had pierced his forehead, annihilating his Primordial Spirit and eradicating every trace of Vitality.
"Old Five!"
"Fifth Brother!"
Witnessing their comrade struck fatally through the skull, vitality snuffed out, body plummeting earthward.
All the Gongshu Family's Primordial Spirit Realm experts cried aloud.
Shock and rage mingled with a bone-deep chill of fear.
They knew Old Five's prowess well—Three Tribulations of Primordial Spirit cultivation, placing him third behind only their father and eldest brother.
Yet even that might failed to parry a lone Sword Qi, resulting in instant death.
Could this masked assailant really be the thief from those bygone days?
And the sight of the Gongshu Family's Fifth Ancestor tumbling lifeless from the skies ignited boundless turmoil among the onlookers below.