Ancestral Isle.
The sun shone brightly, the plants gleamed like green jade, and all living things dwelled in harmony, brimming with vitality.
Suddenly, a dazzling streak of golden light descended from the sky and landed by the coast.
Zhang Yuan stepped out of the Golden Carriage, his gaze darkening slightly as he looked beyond Ancestral Isle.
The island was calm, yet storms raged incessantly outside it, enclosing Ancestral Isle on all sides in a hurricane barrier.
Zhang Yuan manifested a thick iron chain.
"Go."
Like a great saber, the iron chain slashed fiercely at the hurricane barrier.
Yet the iron chain manifested through [Myriad Coexistence] was shredded the moment it touched the hurricane, while the barrier remained unscathed.
Zhang Yuan knitted his brows tightly, his heart sinking to the bottom of a ravine.
Although Foundation-Building Heavenly Beings could influence Heaven and Earth, their influence usually extended only over an area the size of a city.
Ancestral Isle, however, was immense. Set upon the mainland, it would have been almost a third the size of the Ao Kingdom. This had to be the work of a Golden Core True Lord.
Zhang Yuan began to ponder.
Honestly, he truly could not understand why Golden Core True Lords kept inexplicably scheming him into their games. This was already the second time.
"No, this might not be aimed at me..."
A thought suddenly struck Zhang Yuan. He turned toward Cui Yuanxi as she stepped down from the Golden Carriage, narrowing his eyes.
Someone like me, a Seventh Turn Qi Refining cultivator with neither backing nor fortuitous opportunities, surely isn't worth a Golden Core True Lord's schemes. But what if the target is a future destined celestial, the Eldest Miss of Aohai Cui?
That was quite possible.
After a brief moment of thought, Zhang Yuan