When the light faded, a wall of dust hundreds of yards high appeared north of Ning'an City, towering like a moving mountain, ready to sweep across the world at any moment.
The enormous brush of light tapped gently once more. The dust vanished, leaving heaven and earth clear.
Everyone stood stunned for a long while, then began offering their guesses.
"From the looks of it, that bastard Demon Sage Lang Lu tried to stop the two realms from connecting, but the Temple of Sages' power blocked him on its own."
"It couldn't have been anyone but Lang Lu. They say the fighting in the north is terribly fierce. Even the Wu Kingdom and Yue Kingdom have been affected."
"The Sacred Academy hasn't made a great public show of it, but it has already sent elite forces to reinforce the northern battle fortresses. Unless the Barbarian Race deploys the power of Sainthood, they won't be taking those fortresses anytime soon."
"This isn't Two Worlds Mountain, after all. We won't see the spectacular sight of hundreds or thousands of Great Demon Kings and Great Barbarian Kings mobilizing together. The Grass Barbarians consist of hundreds of thousands of tribes. Even the Human Race's School of War would struggle to command them as easily as an arm commands its fingers, let alone those Demon Barbarians."
"Then that means the two realms really are connecting!"
Many people nodded vigorously. Nothing proved the point better than forcing the Wolf Sage to intervene personally.
"Void Sage Fang, how long will it take for the two realms to connect?"
Fang Yun shook his head gently and said, "I've never experienced this before. The Bloodmang Realm is undergoing changes, and no one knows exactly when the passage will fully open. But before it does, I will establish a 'Ning'an