Inside the Palace of Light, White Jade Emperor and Shen Zhengwu stepped into the light mirror.
Ripples stirred across the mirror's surface. The next moment, the two ninth-rank powerhouses had crossed countless barriers of space and arrived above that spatial rift.
Dressed in white with a golden crown, Shen Zhengwu shone with brilliant light all around him. His self-contained domain naturally shut everything out.
White Jade Emperor stood calmly at Shen Zhengwu's side. No aura of mana or spiritual sense stirred around her; she was like an illusory projection.
The moment the two ninth-rank cultivators revealed themselves, an old man in yellow hemp robes appeared before them. He was Huangquan, one of the Tenfold Ghost Emperors, who had just arrived.
Huangquan did not possess White Jade Emperor's abilities. He had seen the heavenly tribulation phenomenon only because he had kept his eye fixed on the Nine Provinces Dharma Domain.
Though the Nine Provinces were vast, he had scattered hundreds of spiritual senses throughout them, watching the state of the Nine Provinces day and night.
The Nine Provinces Dharma Domain was simply too vast, and the Five Qi Grotto-Heaven lay outside it. Huangquan had not discovered the heavenly tribulation phenomenon at once.
The problem was that a ninth-rank heavenly tribulation carried too overwhelming a might. Huangquan's divided spiritual senses quickly detected the anomaly. With his lofty insight and knowledge, he recognized it at a glance as a ninth-rank heavenly tribulation.
There was no doubt about it—it had to be Gao Xian undergoing tribulation!
Once Huangquan realized this, he too became exceedingly excited. Over the course of his long life, opponents of the same rank had almost never made any grave mistakes.
Gao Xian had consecutively destroyed two of his avatars. Though neither had harmed his foundation, they had made him realize