The central square of Heaven-Supporting City, in the heart of Nine-Dragon Island.
The Tribulation Purple Lotus, shaped like a twelve-tier lotus altar, covered hundreds of miles and rose roughly a thousand zhang high. Enshrined upon it was the Sky-Supporting Tribe's Totem Tower, the Heaven-Supporting Pagoda. It would serve as the Ritual Altar for the founding of a nation on Nine-Dragon Island.
An Emperor Realm Great Adept presided over each of the purple lotus's twelve petals. Fifty thousand soldiers of the Heaven-Supporting Army guarded the square, three thousand Demon-Scaled Witch Guards protected the purple lotus, and five hundred Demon-Scaled Jade Shamans accompanied Xiao Ying onto the altar. Together with the five hundred Great Demons who formed the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Formation, they made the entire Tribulation Purple Lotus as impregnable as a fortress of iron and boiling moat water!
Countless factions and cultivators from the Myriad Heavens and Worlds filled the square's perimeter and the surrounding buildings, watching a nation-founding ceremony the likes of which had not been seen in a long time.
Under every watching eye, Xiao Ying arrived at the square. Tianzhi Baize and the other guards swiftly dispersed to their positions around the purple lotus, while Chieftain Cloudsplitter and Blood Suan Witch Emperor escorted him to the center of the altar, before the Heaven-Supporting Pagoda. Guihai Canglan, Li Jing, Mozi, Golden Flame Witch Emperor, Witch Emperor Bali, and the others held positions throughout Nine-Dragon Island. Their command headquarters had been established inside the Heaven-Supporting Palace, which lay shrouded by the Ten-Thousandfold Netherworld Formation.
He took his position!
A sight that left countless cultivators dumbfounded appeared.
Another, identical Xiao Ying stepped out of Xiao Ying's body. Then the first Xiao Ying merged into the one who had just appeared and vanished.
It looked like a magic trick, over in