A living being, a living being slumbering within time.
This living being had slept in time for who knew how many years, concealing itself from many powerful figures of the Phoenix Immortal Clan, from many powerful figures among the avian immortal clans, even from the True Immortal Heir!
It was truly inconceivable.
Even if the True Immortal Heir had not examined things closely, she should still have faintly sensed it through karmic entanglements or changes in the laws of the Heavenly Dao. The True Immortal Heir was merged with the Heavenly Dao, far too keenly perceptive. Not to mention an Eight-Tribulation Supreme, even a Quasi-Emperor should ordinarily have been unable to hide within the True Immortal Heir's territory.
Yet such a fact had simply happened.
"How many secrets are there in this boundless starry sky, in this river of time, that I still do not know..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
Buzz!
At a thought from him, a faintly visible droplet of the Law-Annihilating Membrane appeared above the chirping sparrow, forming a layer of watery film that wrapped around it. It severed the connection between this sparrow, which appeared once every thousand-odd years, and the outside world, cutting off the scrutiny of external karma and laws.
This step carried risks, because it had begun to affect external matter.
However, now that the True Phoenix Heir was using most of his soul computation power to search and investigate the Heavenly Dao disturbances throughout the True Phoenix Star Domains, such risks were very small.
If something truly went wrong, then it was fate. There was nothing more to say.
The layer of Law-Annihilating Membrane wrapped around the sparrow, piercing through layers upon layers of space, laws, and karma. At last, with the extreme speed and sharpness of the Law-Annihilating Great Dao, it broke through