"Someone else has broken through the barrier of the Great Hua Secret Realm!"
Nanmingzi and the others, both inside and outside the Secret Realm, sensed it at once.
With a disturbance this great, even the sound had carried through the River of Time and shaken the Grotto-Heaven. It would have been absurd if they had failed to notice.
Yet that only made Nanmingzi's expression grow graver.
"When Venerable Master presided over it, the Grotto-Heaven's Heart Moon was incomplete, leaving many gaps. Even mortals sometimes stumbled into the Secret Realm. But ever since Junior Brother formed the Heart Moon and joined his mind with the Grotto-Heaven, the entire Great Hua Secret Realm has become a seamless whole. Even when someone occasionally invaded, Junior Brother would sense them and suppress them with a thought. Influencing the Grotto-Heaven's celestial phenomena should have been harder still. But now..."
He stepped out of the building and gazed intently at the slender river. Instinctively, his heart began to pound!
Nanmingzi immediately realized that whoever had come this time was beyond his ability to face.
"That river penetrated deep into the Secret Realm and wrapped around Soaring Peak before anyone noticed it. It even distorted part of the Great Hua Secret Realm's celestial phenomena. A Grotto-Heaven contains the very foundations of the Heavenly Dao!"
"Lord of Self?"
Within Soaring Peak, Chen Cuo's true body slowly opened his eyes. His gaze passed through layer upon layer of obstacles and settled on the river coiling around Hanging Peak. He recognized the intruder at once.
Then he sensed something strange about the river wrapped around Hanging Peak.
In truth, the river outside Hanging Peak was not especially wide. Compared with the projections of the River of Time that had spanned heaven and earth and stretched across the Firmament, it fell