Divine markings surfaced between Zhou Tianyan's brows. He formed a hand seal, and a phantom of the Immeasurable Heavenly Secrets Diagram appeared, filling the entire sky in an instant before vanishing into the void.
From that moment onward, heavenly secrets concealed everything within several thousand miles. Anyone looking in from outside would see nothing that truly existed here.
Li Huang raised his hand, and a palm-sized Bone Casket appeared in it.
The Bone Casket was grayish white, its surface densely engraved with runes. Each rune shimmered faintly with gray-white light, as though the life and death cycle great Dao lay hidden within.
The instant the casket appeared, the surrounding space seemed to freeze for a moment. Even the wind stopped.
The Bone Casket slowly opened, and an aura surged out.
Grayish white and pitch black intertwined within that aura, its strands entangled like countless vines, each woven into the other, impossible to separate.
These intertwined strands of aura rapidly spread outward.
At first, the aura was so dense it almost took physical form, churning through the void. As it spread, it grew increasingly faint and thin until the naked eye could no longer perceive it. In the end, even divine sense could scarcely detect it.
It passed through forests and over mountains, silently seeping into every corner of this land.
The birds in the woods suddenly fell silent for a moment, then resumed their calls.
A Spirit Deer beside a stream raised its head, looked around blankly, then lowered its head to drink again.
On a distant mountain path, a traveling rogue cultivator suddenly stopped and frowned slightly. He felt as though he had briefly fallen into a daze, yet could not recall what had happened. Shaking his head, he continued on his way.
The aura spread soundlessly, like morning