In an instant, the sky darkened.
Countless purple thunderclouds gathered from all directions, shrouding the sky above the South Heaven Gate in the blink of an eye. Within the clouds, serpentine bolts of lightning danced—each one as thick as a barrel, radiating an aura of total destruction. Had these bolts fallen upon the mortal realm, they would have been enough to reduce it to nothingness.
"Emperor Ziwei, stop! Do you intend to destroy both his body and soul?" Emperor Changsheng asked, startled and trying to intervene. Although he had always opposed Li Feng’s succession to the Jade Emperor’s throne, Li Feng had not committed a crime worthy of death. Executing the first-in-line heir to the Jade Emperor was unjustifiable.
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