Misty waters stretched vast and boundless, where water and sky merged into one.
In Jiangnan, Gantang Circuit, as a will descended from nowhere, the Grotto-Heaven Fragment resting at the bottom of the lake immediately began to collapse, ultimately transforming into a human figure.
It was [Sky Soaring].
Indeed, his true body could not leave the [Human World], while Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva and the Retribution Dharma Outer Body were each being watched by the World Honored One and the Nameless Dao Lord.
However, he had too many trump cards.
After all, having spent so many years in the Netherworld, he had ample experience in imprisonment and was well versed in how to use avatars to contact the outside world while behind bars.
Although this Grotto-Heaven Fragment had originally been left here to fish for Hongyun, Hongyun was no longer important to him now. Thus, he did not begrudge it, directly refining it into an avatar before rising on a streak of light and speeding toward Jiangbei, toward the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching.
Soon, he saw his destination.
The towering Cloud Sea stood like a chessboard, its floating mountains scattered across it like chess pieces, forming a vast and awe-inspiring formation.
Ling Xiao did not pause, charging straight in.
"Rumble!"
The avatar possessed only Foundation Establishment cultivation. As it forcibly stormed the mountain gate, turmoil immediately erupted both inside and outside the Sacred Sect, wave after wave of Divine Thought sweeping toward him.
Until Ling Xiao gave a soft laugh.
"Patriarch, this lowly one has an urgent matter to report."
In an instant, all sounds fell silent.
The Divine Thoughts of every Sacred Sect True Person froze in that moment. The surging ocean of wind and clouds finally revealed its endless brilliance of formation light.
Then a towering palace rose into the