As the multicolored passage opened, countless mysterious formations instantly assembled into a crystal-like palm. The palm was half the size of Golden Ao Island, radiating an aura from the distant future that clashed with the surrounding world, making it seem utterly out of place.
Three thousand enormous Sword-shaped Eyes grew from the Crystal Palm. Every eye gleamed with a razor-sharp gaze, as if it could see through all illusions, peer into the essence of things, and observe the heavens.
The Crystal Palm seemed capable of stealing from the future!
"Whoosh!"
The Crystal Palm reached lightly toward the passage's opening. Without a sound, it pierced the space between them and slipped into the multicolored tunnel in an instant. All three thousand Sword-shaped Eyes swept through the tunnel with razor-sharp gazes.
"Rumble!"
A series of thunderous booms erupted inside the tunnel. Wave after wave of violent Space-time Tides battered the Crystal Palm as it tried to snatch fragments of the future. In the space of a breath, its gleaming crystalline arm dimmed, and jagged cracks spread across the palm. A third of its three thousand Sword-shaped Eyes were destroyed outright.
At the same time, the sea of lightning outside Golden Ao Island grew larger, until it completely engulfed the island. Terrifying, violent lightning began to gather into dreadful manifestations: Lightning Divine Prison, Lightning Ancestral Dragons, Lightning Swords and Sabers, Lightning Eyes, Lightning Giant Mountains, Lightning Spears, and Lightning Chains. The power was no weaker than the Lightning Punishment that had descended when Li Yi constructed his virtual Heavenly Dao. An aura of utter carnage filled the air!
"Hmph! A mere Lightning Punishment thinks it can stop me? Fellow Daoist Li has twice broken free of the Heaven and Earth's tribulation. As a Sage, I cannot afford to fall behind. Today, I'll break