The moment Zhang Tie's hand pressed down on Long Jiutian's head, Long Jiutian's entire body shuddered and his eyes snapped shut. The several elders and court masters watching, on the other hand, only wished they could open their eyes even wider.
Heavenly Peace Tower fell utterly silent.
Just ten minutes later, Zhang Tie's palm left Long Jiutian's head. Then, from the center of Long Jiutian's brow, where his eyes remained closed, an earthy yellow radiance suddenly emerged. As that radiance appeared, a speck of light like a firefly flew in from nowhere within Heavenly Peace Tower, then flew toward the still-eyed Long Jiutian...
"Huh? Why would there be fireflies inside Heavenly Peace Tower in broad daylight?" Xue Zhongkai, the master of the Heavenly Craft Court, glanced over and said curiously. But immediately afterward, Xue Zhongkai's expression changed, and his eyes widened still further. "No, this isn't a firefly. This... this is... this is..."
That speck of light was naturally no firefly, because just as Xue Zhongkai's first words fell, dozens more identical points of light appeared within Heavenly Peace Tower, materializing out of thin air beside everyone. The instant they appeared, they swarmed toward Long Jiutian like moths rushing into flame.
When those lights reached Long Jiutian, they slowly gathered together a foot away from his body.
In merely a few breaths, more and more firefly-like motes appeared. Before everyone's eyes, there were already hundreds of those lights, and their numbers continued to grow. They materialized bit by bit in the great hall of Heavenly Peace Tower, then flew toward Long Jiutian, gathering before his chest into a mass as large as a mirror.
Those points of light were earth elements surging out of the elemental realm and appearing from nothing...
"This is cocooning... cocooning... the cocooning of earth elements..."