Watching Zhang Tie step out of the void and descend the stairway of ten thousand swords, every knight gathered above the Mysterious Heaven Eighteen Peaks was stunned...
More than thirty years had passed, yet Zhang Tie's face, voice, and smile had not changed in the slightest. He looked exactly as he had during the battle of the Nether Sea. The only thing that had changed was the aura around him—an unprecedentedly powerful and sacred presence that none of the knights present had ever felt before. As Zhang Tie descended the stairway of ten thousand swords step by step, everyone sensed the elements of the entire Elemental Realm beginning to tremble. Those restless elements spilled out from the Elemental Realm and formed ribbons of light in the sky, like polar auroras. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet light bands twisted through the air in countless shapes, stretching for tens of thousands of miles like colorful banners and jeweled streamers fluttering in welcome of Zhang Tie's return. The sky, which had only just turned dark, was once again flooded with light, bright as day...
On the ground, as the restless four elemental energies surged forth, they directly transformed into golden lotus blossoms. From above, with the Mysterious Heaven Eighteen Peaks at their center, countless billions of golden lotuses rose from the earth one after another, rising and falling in waves. The entire land resembled a sea of lotuses, a spectacle beyond compare. For a time, all of Torch Dragon Territory, all of You Province, and half of the Northeast Protectorate could see these astonishing phenomena in heaven and on earth.
Nor were there merely strange phenomena. Of the four great elements surging from the Elemental Realm, many fused into an ethereal, delicate fragrance, like orchids and musk, drifting for thousands