Pei Ling also stopped beneath the nine pillars. Gazing at the sealing runes, he nodded slightly and said, "Immortal Friend Mo, well done!"
"I'd originally planned to casually deal with this mere Little Immortal from the lower realm."
"But with Immortal Friend Mo stepping in, the result is the same."
As soon as he finished speaking, the immortal abruptly raised his head. His lightning-bright gaze fixed on Pei Ling, and his form, originally so illusory as to be invisible to mortals, suddenly appeared from the void!
His appearance, voice, bearing, clothing... Everything about him was perfect. Nothing else could describe him.
At that moment, the immortal looked at Pei Ling and spoke in a cold, majestic voice: "Mortal from the lower realm, you colluded with a Fallen Immortal, violated the Heavenly Laws, and defied Heavenly Law!"
"The evidence is irrefutable, your crimes innumerable, and your sins unforgivable!"
"You shall be stripped of your cultivation, your memories erased, and cast into a minor world to serve as an ox or a horse for a hundred lifetimes. You shall never enter the Dao!"
The immortal's voice rang out like wind through a forest and water over a spring, clear and stirring yet immeasurably vast.
It brimmed with peerless authority and a chilling presence, as though he spoke with Heaven's own mandate. Each word was law, a Heavenly Law that could not be defied.
Had the immortal broken free?!
Pei Ling was stunned. He'd only said that to sound convincing. Had the Fallen Immortal really taken him at his word?!
Just as Pei Ling tensed every muscle, gathering his vast magical power and preparing to flee at once, the murky darkness around him rippled—and the scene changed dramatically.
A towering platform appeared before him with a thunderous boom!
It stood in the boundless