Celestial Xia had made many plans in advance and had anticipated Origin Xia's various methods of attack. For every situation they might encounter, they had made certain preparations beforehand.
Among these was a prediction of just such a development, along with measures to deal with it. Thus, they did not lose their order at this moment.
Chief Executive Chen struck first. With a stir of his qi, a stream of Clear Vault Aura descended at his will, immediately obstructing that object.
They could now see that it resembled a hummingbird with a pair of transparent wings. Its entire body shone with seven-colored glazed radiance, appearing exceptionally nimble.
After encountering the obstruction, its golden membranous wings swelled, as though it meant to force its way through. Yet at the same time, grains of golden sand fell from the sky, scattering down over the hummingbird. At first, they did little, but once a single grain adhered to it, more and more golden sand began to cling to its body. Visible to the naked eye, the object grew increasingly slow and heavy.
Zhu Tingzhi then pressed a hand toward that section of the garrison fortress. A brilliant light shone out from the void, as if dozens or even hundreds of blazing suns had exploded at once. The portion of the fortress that had extended into Celestial Xia's void was directly reduced to flying ash.
Yet many Origin Xia cultivators' external bodies had been stationed within. Having detected the danger in advance, they drifted out ahead of time.
Those cultivators' external bodies no longer had the qi of the Heaven-Bearing Diagram to guide them, and their connection to their true bodies had effectively been severed. They could only act through the qi intent lodged within their external bodies, but this also caused their qi