Dragon Girl's wide sleeves fluttered. At the point of her finger, the entire world surged with raging currents of qi, roaring and sweeping in every direction before crashing down.
That pure-white fingertip swelled in the eyes of every human, growing larger and larger until, in an instant, it blotted out the sky. Their entire field of vision was filled by that single finger!
In that moment, Pei Ling and his companions were no more than ants. The descending finger seemed impossible to resist, impossible to dodge, impossible to counter.
An immortal!
The eight attendants abruptly came to their senses, their pupils contracting. The divination had foretold great fortune. How could this be...
Before the thought could finish, all eight attendants—both the three Mahayana cultivators of the Sixty-four Tribulations and the other five—felt an intense, stabbing pain in their eyes. Blood and tears poured from their eye corners, streaming down their cheeks.
Immortals could not be looked upon!
The next moment, the auras of Chui Yu, Xiang Zai, and Gu Miao surged simultaneously, instantly breaking through the limits of the Sixty-four Tribulations and reaching a higher level!
The blood and tears in their eyes stopped at once. Chui Yu's wide sleeves billowed as he spoke without a trace of fear. "Let there be mountains!"
A towering mountain range appeared out of thin air, its peaks stretching far into the distance as it rose to meet Dragon Girl's descending finger.
At the same time, Xiang Zai's aged voice rang out, calm and steady. "Beyond every mountain, there is another mountain!"
The layers of mountain shadows Chui Yu had conjured with Create Something from Nothing instantly grew vast beyond measure, as if endless. They resembled a crouching giant dragon; the originally bare mountains suddenly sprouted plants and flowing streams, birds and beasts, as