A moment's thought was enough to tell him that this was the "Imperial Protection Formation" of the future imperial consorts. How weak could it possibly be?
"Only realizing how formidable it is now? Too late."
Above the firmament, nine streaks of rainbow light tore through the void. The nine prodigies of the Ladies' Rite Palace rose into the air, their bodies draped in long gauze of every color, their veils rolling like flowing clouds at sunset. White, gold, silver, purple, blue, cyan, green, and crimson radiance interwove into a net. The three women at the center possessed an abyssal presence—a white gauze gown strewn with stardust, golden gauze battle armor engraved with ancient god patterns, and a silver gauze woman with an inverse-path Eonic artifact, the Moon-Eroding Ring, suspended among her hair like a moon wheel.
They looked down at Li Tianming, standing alone below with sword in hand, their gazes like icy blades scraping bone.
They did not want to wait even a moment.
"Attack!"
White Gauze's white veil churned and vanished. Four eyes converged, and a white three-aspect Primordial Unity Eye rose forth! Behind those three aspects, the shadow of a fourth could even faintly be seen. That meant awakening the fourth aspect was only a matter of time for her.
Fengting Linwan had only awakened her fourth aspect early because of the Karma Emperor Mausoleum. Without the Karma Emperor Lotus, White Gauze would naturally have been even further ahead. She herself had reached the pinnacle of the twelfth rank; before entering the Yu Ruins, her combat power had not lost to Yue Li'ai before the Defying Fate Realm.
Those were all her assets!
A closer look revealed that her three aspects were a white lightning phoenix, a white flame lion, and a white deep-sea giant whale... Undoubtedly,