Across the Gobi, dark stones stretched as far as the eye could see, broken only by occasional patches of yellow sand. Now, however, a bloody yellow stained everything within a hundred li, as though a strange rain had fallen, deepening the sense of deathly silence.
Dressed in a yellow monk's robe and a red kasaya, Kongwen held the Nine-Ringed Monk's Staff in his right hand and toyed with three bones in his left. White and black flowed across them-hand bones and ribs alike-and each carried the contradictory sensations of corruption and transcendence.
"An unexpected windfall, indeed. The Life and Death Impermanence Sect, hehe..." His white eyebrows, drooping down either side of his face, swayed slightly. He gazed ahead with an air of easy detachment, seemingly talking to empty space.
Shattered bones lay scattered around him. Saber intent swept through the area, dissipating specks of black-and-white light amid torn shadows and flesh, as though time had stopped here and brought the universe to a standstill.
That was, in fact, precisely what had happened. "Kongwen" had unleashed Heavenly Emperor Treading on Time outright, killing the three men before they could even look surprised.
Using the Dao of time to chop them like vegetables was very convenient.
For example, the headmaster in Dragon Raja, with his control over time, was practically cheating in the lower tiers.
Inside Biyou Palace.
Daoist Celestial Worthy Chonghe said softly, "When Jiuniang described how she slipped up and was captured, it struck this old Daoist as vaguely familiar. Looking back now, wasn't that Benefactor Taili's 'Five-Colored Divine Palm'?"
"Taili, the Peacock Demon King?" Yan Wuwo's expression changed as he spoke the name of that Dharma Body demon immortal.
"Five-Colored Divine Light? A descendant of Kong Xuan?" Ji Hao instead recalled another figure: the peacock who had single-handedly overwhelmed