Chapter 282: Penglai Island Sinks

A thunderous roar echoed above Penglai Island's sky. In an instant, broken stone pillars plummeted like meteors, accompanied by a deafening crash.

"Run! The island in the sky is falling!" someone shrieked.

Immediately, everyone scrambled towards the edges of the island.

"Boom—"

A colossal sound ripped through the sky, as if heaven and earth had been violently split open at that moment.

The celestial island, plummeting from hundreds of feet above, struck Penglai Island like a blazing meteor, carrying an unimaginable force.

At the moment of impact, the earth trembled violently, as if pounded repeatedly by a giant hammer. Solid rock layers emitted crunching sounds as they fractured, and spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly from the impact point, instantly swallowing hills and rocky shores. Sand and gravel shot skyward like fountains, then rained down mixed with scalding dust. The entire surface of Penglai Island heaved and contorted ceaselessly, like a boiling cauldron.

Even more terrifying was the sudden explosion of air.

The shockwave generated by the impact was like an invisible tsunami, sweeping outwards in all directions with overwhelming force.

The furious wind howled past, snapping ancient pine trees, so thick they required several people to encircle, and tossing their crowns into the air like broken kites. Coastal rock formations collapsed explosively under the tearing force of the air blast. Pulverized rock debris mixed with giant waves and slammed into the shore, creating water walls dozens of feet high that smashed all boats moored in the harbor into splinters.

A distant archway snapped in half with a clang. The copper bells on its eaves, before they could even chime, were swept away by the air blast as streaks of light, vanishing into the dim yellow dust. Even those who had run far away were thrown into the air by the blast; some were swept into the chaos, their fates unknown. Most tragic were the numb and bewildered disciples of Penglai Island; none resisted or ran, all engulfed by the world-ending danger in an instant.

Amidst the violent roar, the entire Penglai Island was turned upside down. Chasms appeared, into which endless surging seawater poured, as if the entire island had been torn into pieces.

Penglai Island was not originally large, being a relatively regular square island about four li in length and width. Although the celestial island was also not large, the impact force from its descent of hundreds of