Within Ping'an Immortal City...
The many younger Mortal Cultivators of the Cheng Immortal Clan had long since been left dumbfounded by this sudden celestial phenomenon.
The endless scarlet hue shrouding the heavens, the pressure that seemed to arise from the depths of one's soul, made everyone's hearts involuntarily skip a beat.
The city immediately descended into turmoil:
Some wore terrified expressions; those of lower cultivation even felt their blood and qi churning, unable to steady themselves;
Some gazed upward in reverence, looking upon that vast blood sea and deeply feeling the gulf between themselves and the Ancestor—a chasm as vast as heaven and earth;
Yet, Within the clan school, those little members of the new generation were mostly like newborn calves unafraid of tigers, still unaware of the danger and solemnity such heavenly might represented...
Not only were their little faces free of fear, they were filled instead with irrepressible excitement and curiosity.
They eagerly called to one another, pointing at the sky and shouting:
"Look!
The sky changed color! It turned into a red sea!"
"Come quick! It's so beautiful! So spectacular!"
"..."
Just then...
The scarlet world high above underwent another drastic change!
The endless blood sea that had spread across the sky suddenly began to surge and collapse wildly toward a single central point!
It was as though an invisible black hole were madly devouring every trace of bloody light.
Endless scarlet energy gathered toward the center like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, making the light at that central point ever more brilliant and dazzling, As though it were gestating a scarlet sun!
Even the terrifying energy fluctuations that had previously swept outward contracted and compressed inward like the tide, Creating an unbearably oppressive feeling, like the deathly stillness before a storm.
The sudden change