Witch Xian sat beside Li Qi. As he spared a portion of his mind to confront the other first-ranks, he explained the current situation to Li Qi.
As they spoke, Li Qi's cultivation was steadily climbing.
This was no good thing. It meant the Desire Realm was flourishing unchecked; before long, it would break beyond Li Qi's control.
Fortunately, Li Qi could still keep it under control for now.
His spells transformed into mist, shrouding the expanding Desire Realm. From this angle, looking upon his inner heaven and earth was like seeing some vast, primordial icefield that had remained unchanged since time immemorial. White fog flowed constantly across the ice, like a roiling ocean of waves.
From time to time, masses of gloomy mist surged forth, sweeping through the surroundings like ocean waves and drowning Witch Xian.
Witch Xian hovered in the air, looking utterly ordinary. Yet whenever the fog pressed down upon him, blotting out the sky and covering the earth, a faint, dazzlingly multicolored halo rippled around him, radiating tranquil light.
Li Qi's demonic thoughts were also churning. At times, they took the form of colossal beasts and strange figures walking across the icefield. At other times, they resembled jagged black boulders erupting from the endless frozen plain like soaring peaks.
Together with those things, under the illumination of Witch Xian's multicolored radiance, they lent an eerie texture to that ever-expanding, bleak wilderness.
Witch Xian paid them no mind and continued, "This time, the Human Path wants to release the Heavenly Demon."
"Release the Heavenly Demon?" Li Qi was puzzled. "Hasn't the Heavenly Demon always been around?"
"For you, it has always been around. But for us, things are different. The Heavenly Demon truly has been sealed by the Formless Heaven. It can only occasionally extend a few