--He... held back?
An Jing's thoughts raced like lightning, one possibility after another flashing through his mind. But just as their exchange of fists was about to reach the seventh instant, An Jing suddenly felt that the vast, solid dominion space before his fist—the one even he could not seize in a short time—had abruptly retreated.
At that very moment, ring after ring of ripples lit up behind Yin Gujin.
The heavens and earth suddenly blazed with radiant light, layer upon layer spreading outward and taking the form of wheels.
Dark blue, deep violet, scarlet red, pure gold, ash white—ripples of every color spread in all directions like tidal waves, then formed hundreds of enormous wheels of light between heaven and earth.
Wheels great and small, solid and illusory, turned against one another. From differing positions, along differing paths, turning in differing directions, they opened one door after another. And through those revolving doorways, martial generals like gods and devils strode forth.
No. They were not merely like gods and devils. They were gods and devils!
Within the Celestial Official System, Heaven belonged to the civil and Earth to the martial. The civil governed laws; the martial encompassed all phenomena. Just as every civil official possessed a Supernatural Ability that could alter the principles of heaven and earth with a single word, every martial general possessed absolute control over the material world.
Just like Yin Gujin, bolstered by the Dragon Qi Dharma Register, their wills became all the more pronounced. They could control every material motion within their "Array Realm domain," dominate all phenomena, turn lead into iron, mercury into gold, make what was already hard even harder, and render what had once been soft incomparably tough and supple.
Then, using this as their foundation, the generals forged divine and