The Sword Spirit's earth-shattering sword strike fell.
It was not a simple slash, but a blade of laws condensed to the utmost extreme.
It precisely severed the vast aura leaking from Li Xuanxiao due to his inability to perfectly control his newfound Body Integration Realm power.
The violent energy fluctuations were forcibly reined in, and the roiling winds and clouds between heaven and earth abruptly calmed.
Yet the Sword Spirit did not relax.
She floated in midair, her gaze sweeping across the entire Divine Grass Mountain.
A breakthrough by an Integrated Body Realm Cultivator.
Especially a breakthrough achieved through a heaven-defying method like Li Xuanxiao's, would never trigger merely this much of a heavenly phenomenon.
The subsequent resonance of laws, spiritual energy tides,
and even the probing backlash of the Heavenly Dao all needed to be isolated!
"This place... needs to be completely concealed!"
The Sword Spirit murmured.
"Rise!"
Following her sharp cry, the earth veins beneath the entire Divine Grass Mountain range rumbled.
Endless dense mist erupted from beneath the Nine Netherworlds, instantly shrouding the core region of Divine Grass Mountain for hundreds of miles around.
The mist churned, cutting off all perception within and without, as though this patch of heaven and earth had been forcibly severed from the main world.
Immediately afterward, "Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!"
Drawn by the Sword Spirit's supreme power,
the true Divine Grass Mountain, which bore spirit fields, medicinal gardens, houses, and even the entire Spirit Vein Core,
began sinking into the depths of the earth's core.
At the same time, above the original site of the descending true Divine Grass Mountain,
space twisted and reassembled violently like rippling water.
An illusory Divine Grass Mountain, almost identical to the sinking mountain, rose from the ground.
Its mountains and rivers, vegetation and dwellings were rendered