The moment the tide of events began to turn.
What happened within the Sumeru Turbulent Flow became increasingly unremarkable.
It was impossible to say exactly how many breaths had passed. In any case, when the countless cultivators of the Yang World finally tore their attention away from the grand scene of Zhuang Wanqing and Chen Ange successively revealing themselves, one flying east and the other west, countering the intimidation of the Sacred-Mystic Confluence great sects and the Western Regions Buddhist Sect—
—and looked once more upon the suspended heavenly curtain formed through the communion of spiritual opportunities—
Only a few brief breaths seemed to have slipped by in a daze.
When they looked again—
The vast Natural Chaotic Dao Sea had already become a scene of "corpses strewn everywhere."
The corpses of seven Spirit Transformation Dao Lords were being dealt with in Cai Siyun's final cleanup. Dense nets of vines grew from the flesh and blood of their true demon forms, forming a sight as wicked as any in this world.
Elsewhere—
Gu Qiongzhi raised a skyful of pill fire, placing Divine Embryos that had been utterly misaligned from their body-and-soul Dharma bodies into five-colored pill flames for frenzied refinement.
In no more than the blink of an eye—
The Divine Embryo was drenched in sweat.
Yet that was not sweat. As the Divine Embryo continually shrank, it was Divine Blood being refined out by Gu Qiongzhi's five-colored pill fire!
At Gu Qiongzhi's side—
The corpse of the Vermilion Bird Sacred Body's true demon form lay there almost intact, without the slightest loss of Blood and qi or bone structure, slowly sinking bit by bit into Gu Qiongzhi's Dao Lord Domain Heaven and Earth, which resembled a furnace where flames burned eternally.
At the same time—
As the countless cultivators