If he seized the Black Rock Progenitor's consciousness, he would become the Mountain God of the Black Rock Mountains. Or rather, the Mountain God of the Black Rock Mountains would become one of his avatars...
And the Ancestral Deity would unite the entire land, moving one step closer to becoming its embodiment.
By then, he believed that even an Outerworld Demon could not stand against him.
But he had never expected this: while the mantis stalked the cicada, the oriole waited behind. The Outerworld Demon had seized the chance to steal the fruits of his victory. He could never tolerate that...
Boom...
The entire Black Rock Sacred Stockade shook beneath the eruption of the Ancestral Deity's furious will.
Pinpoints of dark-gold light emerged from the darkness, like the setting sun sinking bit by bit into the twilight sky and its clouds.
But no sunset or clouds could be seen here. This was deep within the Black Rock Sacred Stockade.
The dark-gold radiance held immense power. Even the few stray threads that escaped struck Tang Changsheng and the others with awe.
Even the sleeping Ancestral God, still digesting the power it had absorbed, twitched instinctively beneath that dark Golden Light.
"This is the Essence Soul of the Black Rock Mountains... Or you could call it the gathering of the mountains' consciousness..." Tang Changsheng murmured, awestruck by its power.
What he saw was no mere fireball, but Great Dao Secrets—or rather, the first hints of them made visible...
How could that dark-gold sun be a sun? It was clearly strands of light woven together into a glowing sphere.
The weave was so intricate, beautiful, and mysterious, filled with a beauty beyond words. It shook Tang Changsheng to his core...
A chance to observe the Essence Soul of an entire mountain range from