I Can See Through All Things' Information Chapter 1284 - 784: Earth-Shattering—A Sword Splits the City

"Not good!"

The white-haired elder with a youthful visage gazed at the gleaming "thin line" dropping down, profound dread surging within his chest.

He longed to halt its advance, but he discovered he lacked even the slightest bravery to block its way.

The innate senses of the Primordial Spirit Realm warned him to never confront this "thin line" head-on.

If he did, demise would claim him without exception, leaving no alternative path!

Thus, the white-haired elder with a youthful visage could merely stare in astonishment as the potent "thin line" hurtled toward Zhou Tian City, carrying the force to rend the skies and the earth.

Swish!

Though it appeared intricate, the sequence unfolded in a mere flash.

The radiant "thin line" seemed to plummet leisurely, yet in truth, it plunged at astonishing velocity.

From the instant the white-haired elder spotted it to the point where it completely cleaved through, everything transpired in one breath's time.

Then, with a sharp swish, structures, fortifications, barriers, and even the earth itself stood no chance against this "thin line".

Not even the protective glow of the array formation enveloping 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 might exploded outward, quaking the land and peaks.

Zhou Tian City as a whole started to quake, parting along the rift formed by the "thin line", slowly dividing to either side.

"What's going on, is it an earthquake?"

"Are you blind? This is Zhou Tian City; earthquakes don't happen here!"

"Then why is everything shaking like this?"

"Could it have something to do with that beam of light that fell from above?"

"Are we being invaded?"

"Look, the Inner City's array formation light screen is gone!"

...

With the quaking persisting, the residents of Zhou Tian City fell into chaos, bewildered by the unfolding events.

A massive metropolis like Zhou Tian City, the bastion of the Gongshu Family, was shielded by a Supreme Array.

In theory, not even a genuine seismic event should rattle this expansive domain, which spanned over a thousand miles.

Yet at present, the rumbling earth and the vanishing Inner City array formation light screen filled them with profound anxiety.

They couldn't comprehend the shift that had occurred.

"Was that Sword Qi earlier? How could that be..."

Hovering over the Inner City skies, the white-haired elder with a youthful visage peered downward, completely stunned.

From his elevated position, the recent occurrence became far clearer to him.

That brilliant "thin line" represented a highly condensed Sword Qi.

This Sword Qi tore through heavens and earth, its edge incomparably keen and invincible.

No element in Zhou Tian City managed to impede it in the least.

The Circulation Star Array light screen over the Inner City was demolished by this horrifying Sword Qi.

Zhou Tian City in its entirety was divided into two sections by this slender Sword Qi.

Buried deep beneath the surface, the Sword Qi detonated, compelling the two portions of Zhou Tian City to drift even farther asunder.

That explained the sensation of the whole city trembling for its inhabitants.

"Who could that be?"

The white-haired elder with a youthful visage stared at Zhou Tian City, which was cleaving along its central line and continuing to separate, his soul quivering in terror.

He lifted his eyes toward the heavens.

To rend apart a gigantic Zhou Tian City, fortified by a Big Array, in one blow surpassed his wildest thoughts.

Such overwhelming might lay beyond the grasp of a typical Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.

Even their own Eight Tribulations Ancestor, who roamed the cosmic voids, couldn't perform such a deed.

Likely, only a fabled Nine Tribulations Primordial Spirit, that elusive divine wyrm glimpsed but never fully known, might pull it off.

But when had the Gongshu Family offended such a formidable being?

"Dad!"

"Father! What's happening?"

At that moment, multiple figures exuding Primordial Spirit Realm presence soared from the Inner City, arriving beside the white-haired elder.

These were the Gongshu Family ancestors, evidently roused by the abrupt disturbance.

They clustered in the air, gazing below, and upon spotting the sword scar stretching across all of Zhou Tian City, now broadened to dozens of feet, they froze in disbelief.

"Dad, what's going on?"

One of the Primordial Spirit Realm experts demanded right away.

But they noticed their father gazing upward in a daze, as though beholding some horrifying sight, gripped by astonishment.

They swiftly traced their father's line of sight skyward.

And beheld a silhouette drifting down leisurely from the heights, silhouetted against the glow.

The silhouette clutched a lengthy sword and donned a dark cloak, his features concealed by an eerie Ghost Face Mask.

He released no aura at all, resembling 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, there are people in the sky! It's the Gongshu Family ancestors!"

"Who's confronting them? Did that guy trigger the shaking?"

"That attire looks just like the killer who took down the Gongshu Seventh Ancestor years back; he's back!"

"Wasn't that killer supposedly eliminated by the Gongshu Clan Leader long ago? How is he showing up now?"

The presence unleashed by the Gongshu Family ancestors at last drew the notice of the populace below.

Spotting the figure lowering from the clouds, recollections from decades past flared to life, sparking widespread commotion.

In those days, the turmoil this person had wrought in Zhou Tian City was colossal.

Not just the assassination of the Gongshu Seventh Ancestor, but also the deaths of multiple Primordial Spirit Realm figures from the Outer City at his hands.

Thus, even after so many years, myriad residents retained sharp memories of it.

And catching sight of that ebony cloak and Ghost Face Mask, they knew him at once.

However, tales claimed the Gongshu Clan Leader had ended the assassin years before, yet now it appeared those stories held some falsehood.

"Thief, how dare you show your face..."

Witnessing Lu Qing approaching from above, one Gongshu Family ancestor bellowed in rage, readying an attack.

But prior to completing his words, a Sword Qi swelled massively before his eyes.

In the subsequent blink, darkness enveloped him, and awareness fled.

The phrase he meant to utter lodged in his gullet, forever unspoken.

For Lu Qing's conjured Sword Qi had speared through his forehead, annihilating his Primordial Spirit and eradicating every trace of Vitality.

"Old Five!"

"Fifth Brother!"

Observing their comrade struck fatally through the skull by one blow, his life snuffed out, the body plummeting earthward.

Every Primordial Spirit Realm member of the Gongshu Family cried aloud.

Amid the horror and fury, an icy dread welled up inside them.

They knew full well Old Five's prowess, his Three Tribulations of Primordial Spirit cultivation placing him third behind only their father and eldest brother.

Yet that level of power failed to resist even one Sword Qi, resulting in instant death.

Could this masked intruder really be the thief from those years?

And the spectacle of the Gongshu Family's Fifth Ancestor tumbling lifeless from the heavens ignited boundless turmoil among the onlookers below.