Heaven and earth lay vast and still.
A gigantic pill furnace stood amid towering mountains, and before it was a young man with twin molten-gold eyes, his handsome features carrying an evil, uncanny beauty.
Under his direction, violet-blue Tusita True Fire flowed throughout the mountain range. Wind and clouds gathered within the peaks, and the roars of dragons and tigers could faintly be heard. Endless ancient Images converged within the pill furnace, piling and accumulating until they finally formed a halo interwoven with gold and white light.
Seeing this, the young man nodded slightly.
The furnace is opening.
True Lord Biluofuguang was satisfied. Though Ling Xiao's departure had produced many Variables, things had ultimately still proceeded according to its script.
"Rumble!"
In the distance, as the light of the Nascent Soul Pill shot into the skies from the Netherworld, a great power immediately descended from the Other Shore, seemingly intending to stop the pill from forming.
It was the cry of a sword.
"Clang, clang."
Wherever the cry passed, leaping Sword Light howled through the Netherworld, as though foretelling a doomed fate, rolling forth like a boundless river.
The first to strike was actually the Sword Lord!
Within the Netherworld, inside the towering Netherworld Lord Hall, the boyish Dao Tianqi raised his eyes at the sight and decisively appeared directly before the sword cry.
"Idiot!"
Amid the sword cry, the Sword Lord's cold voice rumbled forth. "True Lord Biluofuguang. That is the Ancestral Dragon! Everything is a trap laid for you by Chu Sheng. The Nascent Soul Pill plan left behind by Liantian Dou was only bait, meant to lure you into the snare. He calculated you to your death, and you are still working for him now?"
Dao Tianqi said nothing.
Yet before him, every sword cry returned to