Boom!
The entire Thunder Pool spiraled down from the nine heavens, and the blood-colored spear suddenly expanded tenfold!
Ultimate Heavenly Punishment!
Screech!
Cracks spread across the Black Bodhi before it exploded with a roar, turning into nine sheets of golden paper that formed an ultimate defense...
Hiss!
The first sheet of golden paper shattered...
The second sheet shattered...
The eighth sheet shattered...
The ninth sheet shattered as well...
Yet the Ultimate Heavenly Punishment had also lost ninety percent of its might.
The last lingering aftershock was still about to destroy Wraith Residence.
At that moment, a heaven-propping giant hand appeared from nowhere within Wraith Residence. With a flick of its finger, it cried out, "Spirit Eternal Descent!"
A wild wind swept through. The torn golden paper turned into butterflies that filled the sky, gathering into a great tree.
Its branches and leaves swayed. Every leaf connected to the Sacred Tree below, sealing everything tight without a single gap.
Screech!
Leaves fell in swarms. The blood-colored spear pierced through the tree, the two steadily wearing each other away...
At last, it pierced through this spirit tree, which had gathered the power of a Buddhist treasure, the Clan Chief's great might, and the Sacred Tree's authority.
But only the final trace of its power remained. That tiny gleam was only enough to illuminate a single leaf.
A leaf of the Sacred Tree.
The leaf slowly unfurled and took shape like flowing water. A figure gradually formed...
Refined and elegant, he held a scepter in his hand. His hair billowed, and his eyes held an air of transcendence...
"Clan Chief!" Elder Yun cried out and dropped to his knees beside the lake with a thud. The Sacred Lake before him split apart, as though it had erected a bridge connecting past and present,