Rumble!
As Chen Cuo spoke, lightning flashed and thunder crashed outside the Palace!
The raging Thunderclap even blotted out the sunlight. Bolts like serpents linked heaven and earth, darkening the day as they roared and shaking the land in every direction. It felt as though the end of the world had come!
Everyone in the city was terrified!
Thunderclap filled the sky, piercing Yin-Yang.
The lightning flickered across the faces of Meng Po and the other Ghost Gods. Even Tingyi looked surprised, but after a moment's thought, she laughed.
"So that's his plan. Inviting everyone to witness the ceremony, restoring Qi's standing, performing the Feng and Shan rites on Mount Tai—it was all empty, all false. He fooled everyone! He's taken the art of Void and Reality to a breathtaking level. What a pity that someone saw through it all long ago!"
Her laughter faded, and she said meaningfully, "For sheer depth of scheming, that boy from the Chen Household has truly shocked everyone!"
Crack!
Lightning split the sky above the Secret Realm and plunged into the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, scattering the Immortal Cranes and sending birds tumbling from the air.
"He actually saw through me!" In the Flat Peach Forest, the long-haired man sighed. "He truly is my Tribulation. He's gotten ahead of me at every turn. No one who had only just stepped onto the path of cultivation could do that—not even a Reincarnated Immortal! All those times he seemed new to the Immortal Dao, he was pretending. He meant to deceive me!"
At the end of that thought, he took a black stone and a white stone from the chessboard and flicked them out. They became Black and White Qi and tore through the air!
"Chen Fangqing has exposed matters now because the dagger is out of the