"Hmph!"
Upon reentering Yama Hall, the Peak Master of Heaven Mending's expression grew even uglier. Sand and gravel continuously fell from his earthen body, as though he might collapse the very next second.
"You've driven me this far!"
The Peak Master of Heaven Mending took a deep breath and swallowed down his many emotions. Even the Yin-Yang Great Dao Diagram manifested from borrowed qi in the air sank back into his brow.
The next moment, his lips parted and closed, his exhalation booming like thunder:
"Geng Metal is Venus in the heavens, bearing slaughter and stout vigor. When vigor gains water, its qi flows clear; when hardness gains fire, its qi becomes pure and sharp—this is called Shangzhang!"
The heavenly sound rang bright and clear, shaking heaven and earth in an instant. Lu Yang looked up, and all he could see was boundless golden light, blazing and resplendent, impossible to look upon directly. Only by probing with his spiritual sense could he vaguely make out a fierce tiger seated upon mountains and crouched among ridges, white all over, imposing and mighty, staring straight at him.
"Roar!"
With a tiger's roar, rolling wind and sand fell from the sky. Though invisible and formless, they weighed more than ten thousand catties, as if countless blades had struck Yama Hall in a single instant!
Outside Skull Mountain, Daoist Hongyun raised his brows at the sight.
"It's actually Mountain-Sitting Lord. He cultivated Shangzhang for his Heavenly Firmament position?"
"That old monster Chen Taihe has truly been forced to the limit. He hid his Dao Path for so many years without ever revealing it, yet in the end, he still let the cat out of the bag!"
Only after cultivators established their foundations could they be considered to have truly entered the Dao. What followed