Golden-red morning light rose from the end of the Sea of Sand, draping the earth, spirit mountains, and cities alike in a layer of golden silk.
Several spirit birds rose from Beast Valley. Like heralds of dawn, they cried out toward the sky.
Then they circled across the skyline.
Before the pavilions, cultivators stepped out as though sensing something. By then, the sky had already changed dramatically.
Streams of spiritual radiance gathered toward the oasis, while the spirit mountain and oasis had somehow been hung full of ribbons and bright red lanterns.
Dong! Dong! Bell chimes rang out from Sky Shadow Peak. The entire oasis seemed like a colossal beast slowly awakening.
The spirit beasts in the sky, initially only birds, now included Three-Eyed Demon Pengs and Fire Cloud Birds, followed by Thunder Pengs, Soul Devouring Insects, Black Crows, and all manner of spirit beasts dancing through the air.
The rogue cultivators and cultivators from affiliated families were already utterly stunned.
The Ye Family's spirit beasts gave them the suffocating oppression of facing a beast tide.
"As expected!" Wan Chengjie, mingling among the crowd, raised his head and watched it all.
The Ye Family was always far more powerful than he had imagined.
A hundred years ago, he might still have been able to barely estimate the Ye Family's strength. Now, however, he felt he would rather face an old Nascent Soul sect like the Taiyi Sect or Qinghe Sect.
The Wan Family cultivators behind him had also been completely won over.
They rejoiced that Wan Yulian had married into the Ye Family. Before this, they had still debated whether Wan Yulian should remain behind to revive the Wan Family.
After all, she was the Wan Family's first Variant Spiritual Root in so many years. Though she was a female