Published: March 8, 2025
From the center of the Lan Family Courtyard, if viewed from a high altitude, one could clearly see a violent airflow, sweeping outward with a devastating force!
Wherever it passed, the entire Lan Family Courtyard unified into nothingness.
Countless bodies, upon encountering this wave of energy, peculiarly and bizarrely disintegrated in an instant, unable to even let out a scream.
The explosive shockwave surged outward in all directions, leaving behind a bottomless pit in the center. At the bottom of the pit, a haze of smoke descended as dirt fell down, followed by the bubbling up of water...
Soon, the water that emerged was completely swallowed by the suddenly appearing ground fissures...
The widest fissure was several zhang wide and bottomless... Many members of the Lan family fell into it, and the fissure extended outwards as if it had no end...
The Lan Family occupied a vast area, nearly a fifth of Sky Orchid City! It should be noted that Sky Orchid City is a large city with millions of inhabitants!
But this massive explosion started from the center, leveling the entire Lan Family to the ground; the aftershocks spread outward, directly affecting the entire Sky Orchid City!
More than half of the houses collapsed!
The entire Sky Orchid City looked like a scene from the apocalypse.
The explosion had passed. But the surroundings were eerily quiet, like a ghostly trap, and everyone, under such a shock, collectively lost their voices. Only in the sky, that gigantic mushroom cloud still slowly rose and billowed into the horizon...
Lan Buhui stood in the high air, blood streaming from his seven orifices. His hearing had fainted temporarily under such a sudden vibration, and even his internal organs were severely injured.
But he did not tend to his wounds; he merely stood in the sky, his face calm yet numb, his eyes filled with sorrow and desolation gazing down at the chaos below.
The Lan family was gone!
Under such a concentrated and cruel blow, the Lan family had completely become a part of history!
Those who managed to escape from this explosion were fewer than thirty supreme beings, including the current patriarch, Lan Yingfeng, who perished in this turmoil!
Even the thirty surviving supreme beings were all injured and in disarray. Each one of them felt like a stunned duck, completely unprepared for such a calamity to befall their family!
No one could have imagined that a family of tens of thousands would simply vanish with a bang.
Crack... plop...
Continually, dirt and stones fell from the fissures in the earth, and the dust slowly began to dissipate, revealing the shock and disbelief on the faces of the crowd.
"Ah~~~~!" One of the supreme beings suddenly fell to his knees, looking up at the sky and howling, "Heaven... what happened... what is going on!!"
"My grandson... my son... my..." Another supreme being bled from his seven orifices, managing to call out only half a sentence before fainting.
In an instant, the ruined site of the Lan Family Courtyard was filled with cries of despair.
As humans, everyone has roots. With roots, there is a sense of belonging!
The Lan family was the root and belonging of these people.
Many people have questioned the ancient foolish loyalty ideology, not understanding that, in a special context, a place that can shield one from the wind and rain, where one can enjoy hot tea and meals with family... is the root!
It is the sense of belonging!
As long as a group of people moves in one direction, being in that group gives life a natural goal, even if there was none to begin with.
This is the joy of life.
Now, with the Lan Family Courtyard destroyed and tens of thousands reduced to ashes, it was as if the backbone of these individuals was suddenly pulled away, leaving them lost without direction or purpose. This feeling was truly indescribable.
In this state of mind, even feelings of hatred couldn't suppress the overwhelming sense of despair! It was a sensation of being emptied from thought to heart to soul.
After a long time, a few among the crowd began to recover their hearing. They looked around, disbelief painted on their faces, seemingly unable to comprehend that the home where they had lived their entire lives was just gone.