Zhenyuanzi merely smiled without speaking. His right hand pressed lightly toward the earth, and with a flash from his palm, the earth veins surged in response. An earthen-yellow barrier rose from beneath the ground, round and heavy as an overturned colossal bowl, steadily shielding the entire Longevity Mountain.
Luoshanda pondered briefly, his gaze swept over the barrier, and he said in a low voice, "This method is likely of the same origin as the divine ability you used earlier. This realm truly is extraordinary." After a pause, he added, "All the more reason this seat must have it."
Before the words fell, the fire power above the heavenly vault surged wildly. Heat waves rolled like tides, and in an instant swept across ten thousand miles, with green shoots withering to ash, forests turning to charcoal, mountain rocks reddening and cracking, and the earth drying as if aflame. Even the wind was scalded too badly to draw near.
The Wuji Earth Great Formation hummed and trembled, its earthen-yellow radiance flickering erratically. Earth qi boiled and churned, spiritual energy gathered and scattered like the tide, and the great formation began operating on its own, spinning faster and faster.
In that instant, specks of starlight descended from the sky, as if the Milky Way had burst its banks, rustling down toward the formation core.
Zhenyuanzi made a grasping motion at the earth with his left hand. Clumps of brownish-yellow lightning burst from underground with a thunderous roar. Each Wuji Earth Divine Lightning bolt condensed solidly, carrying the force of a thousand jun, whistling into the sky as they lunged straight for that blazing sun.
Lightning exploded, muffled booms rolling one after another. Lightning and fire collided, whipping up a billowing yellow-dust tempest that charged directly at Luoshanda's main body.
Yet that blazing sun