The blazing tail of the reverse-flying meteor cleaved the sky in two, and even that sea of fiery golden light was no exception.
The billowing dust had begun to settle, clearing people's vision somewhat. Khadirali King's golden body in the sky had once again revealed its outline. At this moment, that enormous head crowned with skulls tilted slightly. Compared to the golden body, dozens of zhang tall, the meteor cutting across the sky looked more like a tiny tadpole—only with a somewhat longer tail.
A fierce radiance flashed. The three black holes that served as eyes on the head suddenly blazed with light, surging forth in a crimson torrent that became a sheet of blood-red radiance sweeping across the heavens. The bloody light was so intense that it swallowed the meteor in an instant, followed by violent burning.
Yet in the blink of an eye, a shadow rapidly expanded at the center of that dazzling blood-red light. At first, it was the same size as the three black holes on the golden body's face, but within a few breaths, it had grown into a giant mouth. Great swathes of bloody light sank into it, vanishing without a sound.
Gan Shizhen focused her vision on the situation high above. Since identifying Yi Xin's identity, her brows had never relaxed, and they remained furrowed now.
The newcomer was enveloped in a layer of silver-gray mist, obscuring the view and making their true appearance impossible to discern. Yet there was no attempt whatsoever to conceal the technique they employed. Watching the glaring light over there vanish in patches, never to return, Gan Shizhen had long reached her conclusion:
"This is the Myriad Laws Devouring Light Barrier, a supreme divine art of the Rakshasa Sect!"
As everyone knew, the East Sea Rakshasa Sect was