A Space Rift stretched from a hundred yards away to directly above their heads.
Its edges were utterly smooth, as though an impossibly thin blade had sliced open the sky. Silver feathers drifted from the darkness. The tips brushed the treetops, and branches and leaves shifted half a foot apart, their cuts so clean that not a scrap of debris remained.
The Titan Giant Ape slammed both fists into the ground.
The Gravity Domain expanded abruptly, sending the nearby trees sinking in unison. The falling silver feathers slowed, but several still pierced the crushing pressure and left long, thin cuts across its shoulders.
Tang San held Xiao Wu tighter as Blue Silver Emperor formed three layers of barriers around them.
"Er Ming, do you know it?"
A low growl rolled from the Titan Giant Ape's throat. Its eyes were filled with wariness.
At last, the rift opened completely.
A massive silver beast emerged. It resembled a giant eagle, with a wingspan of over a hundred meters, but fine dragon scales covered its neck. A dark-gold line ran along each of its main wings. When they spread, they blotted out the last trace of daylight in the forest.
A 260,000-year-old Rift-Splitting Silverwing Beast.
This Soul Beast lived in a spatial fold north of the core region. Each heavenly tribulation added another gold line to its wings. An old, charred wound on its belly had never healed, and its next tribulation was clearly not far off.
Bai Jin's Six Eyes swept from its left wing to its tail feathers.
The Soul Power inside this Soul Beast did not flow through meridians. Every feather bone was an independent node, linked to the others through folds in space. If one part was struck, it could shift the damage to another feather—or cast it straight