This scene startled not only everyone on Golden Ao Island, but even Chen Shi, who was sacrificing the duck.
Lately he had grown quite smooth at sacrificing the Black Pot, and sacrificing the duck of Fulou Village felt just as effortless. This great battle was lively enough; if he did not stick his oar in, wouldn't he feel left out of the action?
Yet he never dreamed that after demons attained immortality, their strength would prove so terrifying!
The mere thought of how he used to grab this duck by the neck to extort duck eggs sent a shudder of lingering fear through Chen Shi.
The duck hung suspended in the air, its body swelling like a massive cloth sack while its neck throbbed like a violently shaking sack opening. It possessed the apparent power to swallow the heavens and roar at the sun, causing those black-iron immortal cities to tumble toward its gaping maw one after another!
The soldiers and generals inside the immortal cities panicked, scrambling outward in all directions. Yet no sooner did they fly out of the cities than they were locked onto by the duck's heaven-swallowing jaws, plunging at even greater speeds straight into its crop.
Suddenly a voice chuckled, "This Daoist friend, why resort to such towering rage?"
A figure stepped through the air. At first it was merely a speck of firelight, but the blaze grew rapidly until it resembled a vast expanse of scorching sun. The crimson light at its center was blindingly bright, veering over the entire heavens and earth.
Even the sprawling Golden Ao Island, the individual immortal cities, and the colossal mallard appeared utterly minuscule before that sheet of blazing sun.
The solar blaze stretched boundlessly wide. Looking from east to west, Chen Shi and the others saw it