The next moment, thunderous rumbling rolled like a storm. Dust burst outward with a crash, shockwaves rippled like tides, and amid the drifting clouds of grit, eight stone pillars reaching to the heavens rose with a roar!
Each of the eight pillars occupied a different direction, standing far apart from one another.
Yet they were so immense and towering that, even across distances too vast to measure, the ancient runes carved into their surfaces remained visible. They were densely packed, winding and coiling, and filled with an ancient, weathered, weighty aura.
One after another, stone chains with the same ancient, weathered, weighty aura appeared from thin air. Like pythons bursting from their holes, they lashed toward Pei Ling and coiled around him.
Pei Ling was about to move when he suddenly felt the Immortal Power throughout his body bog down as if trapped in a mire. It became so sluggish that he could scarcely move, as though some immensely heavy force were pressing down on him. Even the ordinary laws of "Sleep" and "Multitude" could no longer be used!
During that brief pause, the sound of rushing water filled the void!
Whoosh, whoosh...
Countless stone chains crisscrossed, scraping against one another and showering sparks like rain. In an instant, they bound Pei Ling again and again, wrapping him into a gigantic stone cocoon.
The roaring of surging floodwaters shook heaven and earth.
Dust billowed everywhere, rising to the sky.
More and more stone chains appeared, layer upon layer, seemingly without end!
The chains sealing Pei Ling rapidly transformed into solid, unyielding stone, forming what looked like an enormous sphere that floated in midair.
BOOM!
Suddenly, eight massive stone chains burst out of the stone sphere. Fast as lightning, they connected to the eight towering pillars in the blink of an