Almost in the very next instant after the image interfered with their retinas, the experts present, including Phoenix Yi, swiftly came to their senses.
Pfft!
They viciously gouged out their own eyeballs, and blood immediately poured everywhere.
The eyeballs they had dug out seemed no longer to belong to them. Their entire forms had become moist and springy, like two soft, transparent spherical jellyfish, stretching countless bizarre, pliable tentacles.
"What kind of bizarre thing is this?" They frowned slightly as they looked at their own eyeballs. Though they had seen and experienced much, they still found it somewhat nauseating.
Splash!
Their eyeballs grew back. They blinked, then used their magic power to isolate the newborn eyeballs from outside infection, instantly dispelling the image interfering with their vision.
For superlifeforms like them in the Transforming Self Realm, who had complete control over the body's six great cycles, every cell, and even every strand of hair, this infection was hardly a difficult problem to resolve.
"So it was a chain of interlocking schemes."
Disaster Bringer Old Man coldly watched the Water Deer in the sky and said:
"When we thought the Thunder God was going to fight us and drag all the watching cultivators into his thunderstorm, the Thunder God merely feinted. Attacking us was only incidental. His true target was to broadly evaporate seawater, arrange thunder and rain over an ultra-wide area, and send a vast spring rain sweeping across the world, announcing the King's arrival to the entire world!"
Phoenix Yi's face darkened. "When we thought the Thunder God had merely lost while playing around in the rain, we discovered that his proclamation of the King's arrival was also a feint and a smokescreen. In truth, it was all preparation for the Water Deer's entrance."
Looking at it now...
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