Within the Four-Sided Heaven-Locking Diagram.
Day and night stood clearly divided, each claiming half the sky.
The Golden Crow hung high in the east, the Great Sun dazzling.
The Jade Rabbit hung in the west amid a sky full of stars, the Milky Way suspended upside down.
Beneath the sun and moon lay mountains, rivers, grasses, and trees. In each of the four directions stood a pillar supporting the sky, with eight chains stretching across the air to bind it fast.
Golden patterns were engraved upon those iron chains.
The patterns looked like writing, yet also like pictures.
Atop the mountain where day and night met.
Four figures stood side by side.
"Are we still not making a move?" a man murmured.
"Could something have happened to Chang Xi?" another man asked, his brow furrowing.
"There shouldn't be a problem. I know Chang Xi," a woman said.
Just then.
"This is bad!!" One of them paled.
At the same time.
Lishui Imperial Palace.
Boom—!!
A roar rang out.
A cloud of blood burst apart.
Is it over? The thought flashed through Jiang Ning's mind.
But his hands did not slow in the slightest.
With a lift of his hand, he took the Peach of Immortality and tucked it away.
At that moment, Zhou Yun's eyes were filled with terror.
All she had seen was a streak of Golden Light tearing through the air. Chang Xi, who had been chatting with her just moments ago, had burst into a cloud of blood.
She could even smell the blood so close to her, not yet dispersed.
Just then.
Buzz—!!!
The void trembled.
A point of Immortal Light appeared in the void.
Then the void rippled like the surface of a lake.
That point of Immortal Light slowly unfurled.
From a point