Ch 6: The Wrath Unleashed

Ye Tian's grip on Qing Yue's jaw tightened, his fingers pressing into her skin with unrelenting force.

It felt like her bones might shatter at any moment under the crushing strength of his grasp.

His face was as cold and emotionless as a statue carved from stone, his eyes glowing with an ominous light.

The room seemed to shrink around them, suffocating her beneath the growing weight of his aura.

The aura... the terrifying energy that surrounded him... continued to swell, pulsing like a living entity, consuming the air, the space, the very fabric of reality.

It grew thicker, darker, more oppressive with every passing second, as if it were feeding off his rage, expanding with the full weight of his awakening.

The room trembled under its sheer power, the walls groaning as the energy pressed outward, pushing against the stone and the very air itself.

"Now," he said, his voice low and rumbling, like the growl of a beast that had been awakened from the depths of an eternal slumber...

"I dare you to pray. Pray to every ancestor, every god, every Dao, and even the forces of nature themselves. Ask them if they can protect you now."

His voice was cold, filled with a venomous disdain that struck her like a physical blow.

Each word was a shard of ice that stabbed into her already fragile resolve.

Her eyes widened in horror, her heart pounding in her chest as the truth behind his words settled deep into her bones.

There would be no protection for her now, no salvation.

Every god, every spirit, every force of nature had abandoned her in the face of this absolute power.

Ye Tian no longer saw her as human... she was nothing more than prey.

In one swift, effortless motion, he lifted her off the ground, his grip on her jaw tightening even further, and hurled her toward the wall.

The sheer force of his throw sent her careening through the air, the world around her blurring as she flew at an unimaginable speed.

Her body collided with the first wall, the stone shattering on impact, sending debris flying in every direction.

But her momentum didn't stop. Her body blasted through the first wall and continued, flying through the room as if she were nothing more than a rag doll.

She crashed into the second wall with a bone-shattering force, her back slamming against the stone with such velocity that the entire structure seemed to shudder.

The wall caved in around her, crumbling under the weight of the impact, forming a deep crater that spread outward like a spiderweb of cracks.

For a moment, everything went black.

She lay there, broken and bloodied, her mind swimming in a haze of pain and confusion. Blood filled her mouth, dripping from her lips and pooling on the ground beneath her.

The sharp, metallic taste of it flooded her senses, mixing with the blinding pain that radiated through her entire body. She gasped for breath, each inhale sending searing agony through her chest.

Was this death?

For a second, she thought it was. The pain, the crushing force... it was all too much. She felt the edges of her consciousness fraying, pulling her into the darkness.

Her body felt too heavy to move, her limbs too shattered to respond. The world around her was fading, slipping into a cold, numbing void.

But then, she felt it... a dark energy, wrapping around her like tendrils of shadow, seeping into her broken body.

The energy was cold, suffocating, yet it held her in place, refusing to let her sink into unconsciousness. It bound her soul to her body, keeping her tethered to the mortal world, forcing her to endure the agony.

Her eyes snapped open, wide with horror as she realized the truth.

Ye Tian's energy wasn't just meant to destroy her... it was meant to make her suffer.

The blackish-red hue of his demonic aura clung to her like a curse, preventing her from escaping into death's sweet embrace.

Her soul was trapped in her shattered body, forced to experience every moment of the unbearable pain.

Her dantian... the core of her cultivation... had shattered. The energy within her, once powerful, was gone, dissipated into nothingness.

Her meridians, the channels through which her power once flowed, had collapsed. Her limbs were twisted and broken, bent at unnatural angles that made her skin crawl with terror.

She was no longer a cultivator... no longer even human.

Her body had become a vessel of suffering.

Tears welled up in her eyes, spilling down her cheeks as the full weight of the agony crushed her.

She could feel everything... the burning pain in her broken bones, the sharp ache in her chest, the dull throb of her shattered core.

But no sound came from her lips. She couldn't even scream. Her throat was tight, her voice silenced by the sheer horror of what had happened to her.

She lay there, trembling, her body convulsing with pain, but all she could do was cry in silence.

Through her blurred vision, she saw him... Ye Tian. He stood at the center of the room, bathed in a dark, swirling aura that made the air itself tremble with fear.

The energy around him was alive, taking on the form of a demonic figure... its long, twisted horns curling upward from his head like the embodiment of an ancient nightmare.

His hands were no longer human. The black energy that surrounded them had morphed into something monstrous, clawed and grotesque, like the hands of a demon that had crawled up from the depths of the underworld.

His eyes glowed with a murderous intensity, more filled with killing intent than she had ever seen before.

There was no mercy in them, no humanity, only a deep, unquenchable thirst for blood.

His smirk twisted into something darker, something cruel and unforgiving, as if her suffering brought him a sick sense of satisfaction.

The weight of his presence pressed down on her like an avalanche, suffocating her beneath its sheer magnitude.

She had once thought herself powerful, but now, in the presence of this being, she felt smaller than an insect. She had awakened the apex predator, and there was no escape.

Ye Tian took a single step forward, the sound of his footfall echoing like a thunderclap through the remnants of the shattered room.

The moment his foot touched the ground, a shockwave of energy surged outward, rippling through the floor and the walls.

The entire building groaned under the force, the stones cracking as the foundations trembled.

Then, the ground beneath them began to shift.

A pulse of dark energy radiated from Ye Tian's body, spreading out like a wave.

The walls cracked and crumbled under the pressure, the ceiling groaning as the immense force bore down on it.

The ornate columns that once supported the room shattered into dust, the roof above them collapsing inward.

The entire building began to collapse.

The walls fell first, crumbling like brittle sand, followed by the roof, which disintegrated into nothing but debris and dust.

The ground shook violently as the shockwave expanded further, the earth itself trembling beneath Ye Tian's feet.

It was as if the very fabric of the world was tearing apart, unable to withstand the weight of his awakening.

The shockwave didn't stop at the building. It surged outward, consuming everything in its path.

The once vibrant and festive palace grounds were reduced to rubble, the surrounding structures falling into ruin as the energy tore through them.

The force was relentless, unstoppable, like a storm of annihilation that left nothing in its wake.

When the dust finally settled, the once majestic palace was gone... reduced to nothing more than a massive crater in the ground.

The walls, the floors, the decorations... everything had been erased, wiped from existence by the sheer force of Ye Tian's power.

In the center of the destruction, only a small part of the building remained untouched.

A single piece of stone flooring, barely large enough to fit a person, stood amidst the ruins.

And on that piece of stone, Qing Yue lay, paralyzed, her broken body trembling in silent agony.

Her eyes, wide with horror, stared blankly ahead, unable to comprehend the destruction that had unfolded before her.

She had been left alive... forced to witness the end of the world with her own two eyes.

The sky above her seemed darker now, the clouds swirling in response to Ye Tian's energy, as if the heavens themselves had turned against the world.

The air was thick with dust and smoke, the remnants of a city that had once thrived now reduced to nothing more than a wasteland.