"Even Ghost Gate Pass could be blocked!?"
The skull atop the gate lintel let out a cry of astonishment. Then an endless stream of black qi poured from the Ghost Gate, pitch-black without a trace of any other color. Staring at it gave one the feeling that even one's mind and spirit were being consumed by that darkness.
Each strand of black qi seemed like a martial arts master, fists thrusting straight ahead with overwhelming force. They surged together in a vast tide and smashed down, shattering the starlight that had been used for defense!
Yet the starlight did not scatter. It continued to merge into the vortex.
The origins of this starlight were not mysterious at all. It came from the Heaven Lord's star. Qiu Yan's Divine Spirit Body was still within the Three-Manifest Dharma Realm, but the Heaven Lord's star continued to burn, clearly on the verge of becoming a sun. Its radiance spread through the surrounding starfields. Buried within the star's soil was the Literary Web. Back then, to prevent upheavals in the lands of Donghua from wiping out everything he had accumulated in the Literary Web, Qiu Yan had deliberately used the Humanistic Divine Path to establish a foundation upon that star and bury the Literary Web there as a contingency.
Now, as Qiu Yan charged toward a higher realm, he used the Literary Web as a medium to gather scenes of heaven and earth from every direction. The many landscapes upon that star were transmitted through the Literary Web. Condensing into starlight and entering the vortex, they evolved into spreading soil, becoming a star that hovered above mountains, rivers, and the realm.
However, as the black qi invaded, the starlight could not hold it back. The black qi gradually condensed into tangible form, turning into