Above the Ninth Heavens, within the Heavenly Realm, the emperor who held dominion over heaven lowered his head and glanced at the rolling clouds above the Eastern Sea. After pondering for a moment, he withdrew his gaze and paid it no further heed.
Within the Chestnut Expanse, ten divine maidens simultaneously raised their heads and looked toward the Eastern Sea. Seemingly sensing something, they then glanced at the cloud-wreathed palaces above the Ninth Heavens, the corners of their lips curling slightly.
Meanwhile, within the Eastern Sea, the assembled immortals stepped forward one after another to sense the divine ability fruits covering the tree.
Whenever a divine ability fruit was plucked, a wisp of rosy radiance emerged around Yu Chen.
Most of these rosy lights were based on colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet, gold, silver, and white, interweaving and transforming into even more brilliant hues.
For example, red gave rise to shades of rouge, peach, apricot, willow, pomegranate, cherry, and crabapple. White, too, came in many varieties: snow, ivory, moon, tea, fish-belly, lead, and more.
The various rosy lights flowed into halos, their colors overlapping, until they finally formed forty-eight-colored radiance like a full moon that slowly rose behind Yu Chen. From within to without, it spread layer upon layer. The slowly revolving forty-eight-colored glow cast forth countless rays of multicolored light.
Beneath the illumination of the rosy light, Yu Chen's entire body appeared hazy and indistinct. Only the divine light in his eyes remained dazzling, allowing others to vaguely make out his figure amid the radiance.
As his gaze shifted, Yu Chen looked through the gathered immortals, through the fortunes they represented and their corresponding fates, taking in the myriad forms of the mortal world and every possibility of the future.
Within the flowing rosy