A mountain storm was brewing, and the wind filled the tower; dark clouds pressed upon the city, threatening to crush it.
The Snake People Clan's Holy City was in precisely such a state.
Above the Holy City, fierce winds gathered and surged while dark clouds massed, oppressive and seemingly close enough to touch.
Thunder rumbled, silver serpents flashed amid the black clouds, and the sight was terrifying.
The sudden celestial phenomenon caused Gu He and the others, who had gradually moved away from the Holy City, to turn their heads.
"What terrifying energy... This disturbance... Is a high-tier magical beast undergoing its tribulation?!"
Sensing the violent energy contained within the vast cloud cover above the Holy City, as well as a terrifying aura building up like a volcano about to erupt from the seabed, Yun Yun's beautiful face beneath her black robe rarely revealed a trace of gravity.
"A magical beast is advancing to Dou Zong?" Gu He's pupils contracted slightly as he spoke in some alarm.
His powerful Sixth-Grade Alchemist Soul Perception allowed him to sense that increasingly surging, vigorous aura faster than Yan Shi and the others could. It was even more terrifying than Jia Shentian, the guardian of the Jia Ma Empire's Imperial Family.
That aura seemed to be breaking through the shackles of Dou Zong!
Hearing Gu He and Yun Yun's shocked murmurs, Yan Shi and the others were all startled as well, their gazes shifting between the Medusa Temple and the two of them.
"This aura... it shouldn't be wrong," Yun Yun said gravely.
"Within the Snake People Clan, the one most likely to break through to Dou Zong... should be Queen Medusa." Gu He frowned, already having formed a guess. "Old Gu, Sect Master Yun, are you saying Medusa is breaking through to Dou