Cut the Gordian Knot

Under the utterly shocked gazes of all the Golden Crows below, the giant hand in the sky grabbed that enormous tongue and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Looking at the vanished giant hand, all the cultivators present were so stunned by what had just happened that they could not say a word.

After a long while, a Golden Crow Race cultivator who had finally recovered muttered, "What just happened?"

"That thing that tried to attack the Mother Tree just now looked like an enormous tongue?"

"That was the tongue of an unknown existence?"

"That tongue alone was several thousand zhang in size. How enormous must its owner's body be?"

"How powerful must something with a body that huge be?"

"And how powerful must the owner of that giant hand be, if it could casually grab the tongue and leave its owner unable to move?"

"Could the owner of that giant hand be the Master of the World?"

After hearing this, a nearby cultivator who had also recovered took a deep breath and said, "Other than the Master of the World, who else in our world could be so powerful?"

The person who had first muttered to himself slowly nodded after hearing his companion's words. "That's right. Indeed, other than the Master of the World, who else in our world could be so powerful?"

"It isn't strange for the Master of the World to be this powerful."

At this point, he paused and turned to look at his companion. "What I find strange is where that enormous tongue came from."

"Didn't Chai Yun say earlier that, within this World Region, other than us, only the Barren Heaven Continent has Intelligent Lifeforms?"

"Could it be that the attackers are cultivators from the Barren Heaven Continent?"

"But the Barren Heaven Continent sent a Visiting