Xu Caiyi's brief, icy reply not only gave her undeniable answer, but almost the instant her words fell, she turned that answer into the most direct and merciless action!
The towering thirty-story Haotian Pagoda phantom behind her had previously hovered silently, its body draped in Chaos Light. Now, it seemed to have been infused with some awakening will.
The pagoda trembled slightly. Then, profound ripples visible to the naked eye, like those spreading across a deep pool after a stone was dropped into it, burst outward from Xu Caiyi in all directions!
The ripples were not violent. They even carried an ancient, distant rhythm, as though a slumbering beast had merely turned over in its dream.
Yet this seemingly casual "turn" made the Winged Race elders closest to Xu Caiyi, who had been poised to strike, feel as if they had been struck by lightning!
"This is...!"
Several Sixth Realm Saint Venerables' expressions changed drastically. Before they could say anything, their Saint Domains erupted almost instinctively!
Radiant Gleam Saint Domain barriers, woven from laws, were hastily raised one after another. Like dikes urgently built before a catastrophic flood, they desperately resisted the continued spread of those invisible ripples.
Even so, they had only barely managed to protect themselves.
Before this vast, majestic power that seemed to come from another dimension, the power of their Saint Domains encountered its natural nemesis and completely lost both the right and ability to extend outward.
No matter how they urged them on, Saint Domains that could originally cover hundreds or thousands of feet, trapping enemies and protecting their owners, now resembled beasts bound by invisible shackles. They could only huddle trembling within three feet of their masters, not daring to cross the Thunder Pool by even half a step!
If even their Saint Domains