As the woman in black danced, the ceremony gradually reached its climax.
Ma Qi's chanting rose higher and higher, while the disciples kowtowing below grew ever more devout.
Su Che could sense the divine intent of everyone present.
This was indeed Spirit Preservation, Shadow Reflection to some degree, for it, too, was a mystery built upon the laws of True Illusion.
So long as heaven and earth had not collapsed, so long as even a wisp of the Ninefold Heavenly Firmament remained, a Dharma-Ending Lord like the Dharma-Ending Heavenly Demon King had absolutely no way to enter this world.
This was hardly the moment when the Ancient Heavenly Court fell and the Heaven-and-Earth Calamity arose.
Yet Su Che could sense a certain "flavor" belonging solely to the Dharma-Ending Demon Master lingering around that mass of black qi.
That was another impossibility.
How could a mere Reverted Elixir cultivator like Ma Qi so easily borrow the might of a Dharma-Ending Lord?
If Devil Sect cultivators could casually reach across the bounds of space and time to summon the power of a Dharma-Ending Lord, they would have dyed all three thousand Great Thousand Worlds in the cosmos with their influence.
The answer was simple, then. This was an exceptionally peculiar "illusion," or rather, a divine ability built upon the laws of True Illusion.
The Devil Sect differed from both the Daoist and Buddhist Schools, and differed still more from Sword Cultivation.
The Supreme Dao Ancestor and the Buddhist School's primordial Buddha had both achieved complete Transcendence and entered an entirely new state. Their traces could be found everywhere in the cosmos, yet their persons could not be seen.
The one from the Devil Sect, however, sat firmly at the center of the universe, ceaselessly observing this world.
That was a difference in