"...What is that?"
This was the most immediate, utterly instinctive thought that sprang to the minds of everyone present when they first faced that figure.
The sky was clearly still the same sky, the ocean still the same ocean, and even the surrounding airflow had not changed noticeably from before.
But at this moment,
as they watched that tall figure slowly emerge from the Space Tunnel, everyone felt their vision blur.
It was an extremely strange sensation.
It was as though that were something they could not comprehend even while witnessing it with their own eyes.
At the same time,
everyone present felt something far swifter and more terrifying than storms and lightning... an oppressive force like the celestial river in the heavens becoming a roaring flood and crashing straight toward them.
It no longer merely seemed tangible.
It was genuinely, truly as solid as substance.
In but an instant,
this region—of unknown size, yet large enough to easily contain billions upon billions of stars—was completely enveloped, like a sand table set inside a bonsai planter.
In that instant,
the many powerful figures present felt an inescapable sense of urgency, tension, and even fear abruptly rise within their hearts...
It was like prey suddenly discovering that it had wandered into a hunter's hunting grounds.
Even though they could not sense any hostility at all,
they still immediately panicked on instinct.
At the same time,
they all sensed many facts that they could not afford to ignore...
For example, the instant that figure appeared,
they completely lost all actual control over the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around them.
It was like being surrounded by air, yet unable to draw a single breath, on the verge of suffocating to death.
Even the power of space-time, which they should have been