The mountain collapsed and the earth split.
Fang Shu and the others stood on the earthen mound, powerless to resist. For a moment, they could only watch helplessly as the enormous goose beak swept toward them.
But in the next instant, the spiritual lights imprisoning them blazed brilliantly, their colors deepening as they firmly blocked the giant goose's beak.
Boom! The violent collision resounded for a thousand miles.
Everyone on the mound was knocked sprawling by the shock, but at least none of them fell into that goose's mouth.
An enraged shout burst from the mouth of the goose-headed, half-human creature:
"You actually made a cage of fortune to protect these ants! What a waste, what a waste!
"You deserved to fall short at the final hurdle and become my food!"
Hearing that shout, the disciples of Mount Lu suddenly came to their senses.
They looked at the spiritual lights imprisoning them on every side and finally realized:
"This was something the temple master and the others left behind?"
Someone else on the mound shouted in sudden understanding:
"So that's it! This isn't a prison, but a fence sheltering the Mount Lu Dao Lineage! A palisade, a bulwark protecting us!"
Fang Shu looked around and discovered layer upon layer of golden, azure, crimson, black, and white spiritual light surging outside the mound. They were wondrous beyond measure, their grandeur no less than the strange spectacle that had appeared when the Beauty Palace Master reached the threshold of refining spirit.
Indeed, they surpassed it...
Suddenly, his eyelid twitched. Realizing something, he fixed his burning gaze on the goose-headed creature hovering above them with its enormous mouth open.
Fang Shu pointed and shouted, "Everyone, look at that immortal envoy of the Profound Teaching!"
"Look at the Goose Demon, quickly!"
Fang Shu was