Blood mist surged and churned across a hundred li.
Enormous black wings stretched across the void.
The red toad lifted its head and stared blankly at the sky.
Only the corners of its mouth betrayed its horror.
It could not help murmuring, "This... how is this possible?!"
Leaving aside the savage, baleful aura emanating from that Central Palace, which made souls tremble.
Just look beneath that grim palace.
Only a single stone statue stood there.
One stone statue.
That corresponded to the black-robed girl possessing cultivation merely at the One-Piece Chessmaster Realm.
Yet that one-piece cultivation had spread dense, blood-colored mist across a full hundred li.
Everyone knew.
The moment a Central Palace manifested, the reach of its celestial phenomenon represented the depth of its owner's most fundamental reserves.
For an ordinary one-piece cultivator, five li was already respectable.
Ten li marked a monstrous talent.
Rumor had it that even personal disciples of the Nine Great Dao Sects or direct-line descendants of the Cloud-Dream Palace could only reach a few dozen li.
A hundred-li phenomenon...
Never mind the One-Piece Chessmaster Realm.
Even if Guanlan Immortal Lord personally manifested his Central Palace, with his lofty cultivation as a Sixth Chessmaster and the profound reserves he had nurtured over the years with the Southern Immortal Palace behind him.
He would probably barely reach a hundred li.
In other words.
This girl who had appeared from who knew where.
With only a one-piece cultivation, her reserves were already so outrageous that they rivaled an Immortal Lord's?
What kind of earth-shaking talent was this?!
The red toad's arm holding the steel fork began trembling uncontrollably.
Now it could neither advance nor retreat.
The watery spectacle it had conjured earlier actually began collapsing beneath the pressure of the blood mist filling the sky.
Meanwhile, on