On Layered Mountains Continent, the wind and rain abruptly ceased, and it was as if the pause button had been pressed on heaven and earth.
"What exactly is that...?"
His mind frozen, True Lord Pingdu watched the Heart Mirror slowly solidify above the Spirit Lord and the Mist Flood Dragon's heads, shocked and doubtful.
At that moment, an invisible pressure crossed the distant Great Void and bore down upon his soul, making his consciousness feel as though it had fallen into a mud pit, unable to break free for a time.
One had to know that he was at the Celestial Phenomenon Peak. Though he had yet to break through his limits, his soul was powerful and his will resolute. Ordinary methods could never shake him, much less suppress him directly.
At this moment, the Heart Mirror changed again. The mirror surface, originally shrouded in strange radiance, gradually became clear, revealing a figure. Clad in water and fire, it sat cross-legged in the void, Primordial Chaos Qi swirling around it. Its features were blurred, impossible to see clearly or fathom.
Looking at that figure and sensing that familiar yet unfamiliar aura, True Lord Pingdu's mind trembled in horror.
"Dao Embryo Saint Lord?"
As he guessed at a possibility, True Lord Pingdu's scalp went numb. That was right—his soul was already formidable, and he also had the protection of the Netherworld Arcane Art. The only one who could suppress him with a mere thought was the Dao Embryo Saint Lord.
Once that thought arose, a trace of fear inevitably emerged in True Lord Pingdu's heart. As a Celestial Phenomenon Peak cultivator of the Netherworld, he had encountered beings like Dao Embryos many times. Precisely because of that, he understood their terror better than ordinary people.
If the Celestial Phenomenon Peak was