After a brief silence, Sky Soaring spoke.
"This truly is... a Tribulation."
The voice was calm, yet it did not come from his broken strand of Divine Thought, but from the soul of the Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva currently held in Lu Yang's hand!
In an instant, Lu Yang's pupils contracted slightly!
Yet the next moment, the Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva—or rather, Sky Soaring—moved. A dazzling golden radiance suddenly flared from his body.
That radiance interwove the light of sun and moon and gathered Yin-Yang qi. It was precisely the Image of White Wax Metal.
Yet this Fruit Position was restrained by Lu Yang's Fire in the Sky. The moment it was unleashed, Sky Soaring not only failed to escape, but found himself in an even worse position.
But in the next instant, Lu Yang saw a second illusory radiance emerge, reflecting the shifting of hills and valleys and the Image of Dragon-Serpent Shadow. It was Sand-In-Metal Earth. The two radiant colors intertwined, forming the Image of "earth that bears Yang, drains fire, and gives birth to metal," turning the original restraint into mutual generation instead!
"Rumble—!"
With a tremendous crash, Sky Soaring rode a streak of escaping light and fled from Lu Yang's palm in the blink of an eye. He landed in the distance—he had actually escaped!
Lu Yang was left momentarily speechless. Then he shook his head and chuckled.
"...I've learned something new."
This was not a gap in cultivation realm, but purely a difference in Dao attainment. Sky Soaring had forcibly found a path to survival from a hopeless situation through his profound Dao attainment!
I knew the Variable lay with Sky Soaring... worthy of the World Honored One.
Lu Yang glanced sideways, only to see the City-Wall Earth that had just reversed everything now dimming in radiance.