The heavens stretched like a dome, daylight slightly dimmed. Stars flecked with frost began to emerge, as though an immense painting had unfolded between heaven and earth.
Within this boundless world, an abnormally gigantic strange bird spread its wings in the air. Its body was forged of platinum, its feathers gleaming. Endless rosy radiance swept across the sky as if brushing over the strange bird's back, carrying away a feather that transformed into spiritual light filling the heavens.
Yet this splendid sight was merely the chaotic prelude to the firmament.
A swath of radiance tore across the sky. Countless cultivators appeared in the air like shooting stars, their arrival ever-shifting in an instant and bringing an overwhelming, majestic spectacle. They came from every major race, with ferocious beasts making up the greatest number.
They gathered between heaven and earth like a mysterious stellar formation, and at its center stood the encircled strange bird!
The heaven-and-earth vital energy was instantly stirred into turmoil, lightning flashing and thunder roaring.
Towering giants rose from the earth. Some held silent swords, some manifested scripture wheels, some wore robes white as snow, and some were wreathed in rippling golden weaponry... Their vast surging dharma power converged through the mountains and rivers in all eight directions, like endless primal power among the stars, its might spanning the skies.
Several beings even stood like solitary pillars supporting the heavens, holding up a stretch of sky in their hands. To the strange bird, it was simply inconceivable!
It kept turning its head to look in every direction. The innate suppression brought by those Immortal Dao realms filled its heart with incomparable terror. It had never seen such horrifying beings before. Where had they come from?!
"Pluck its feathers!"
A vast, majestic roar shook heaven and earth. The voice