The moment the words fell, Su Shi'er hurriedly looked up at the sky.
True essence flowed through his eyes, sharpening his gaze.
He strained to see as far as he could, his gaze piercing layer upon layer of clouds.
Unfortunately, there was still a limit to how far his eyes could see. He could only faintly sense powerful energy and fluctuations from an array high above.
What was actually happening there, he had no way of knowing.
"I'll do it!"
Ling Yue Shang spoke up beside him.
Before she had even finished, her hands shifted through sword seals, and an unfathomable aura spread around her.
In the blink of an eye, a streak of sword qi appeared before her and shot skyward.
Sword Intent rippled around her, while more sword qi formed a hazy mist before her.
Only a few breaths passed.
The mist suddenly shifted, revealing a scene above the sea of clouds.
On one side of the scene lay Tianyuan Star.
From this vantage, Tianyuan Star looked like an immense hemisphere shrouded in mist.
Through the drifting haze, the interwoven lines of mountains and rivers were faintly visible on its surface.
On the other side stretched the vast, dark void of the cosmos.
Ling Yue Shang's sword qi had reached the edge of Tianyuan Star. Beyond it lay the boundless starry sky.
At that boundary, eight figures hovered in the air.
One stood over a thousand zhang tall, every movement carrying supreme divine might.
His enormous body made the others look impossibly small.
This was none other than the notorious Demon God Xuantianjun.
Clearly, this was not his true body, but a Dharma Form conjured through immense mana.
Though the seven around him looked like ants before the Dharma Form, they remained composed. Not one showed a trace