Grand Pure One Laozi stood before Mount Jade Capital.
At that very moment, he perceived it all the more clearly: the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus Seat, a hundred li across, had appeared before the defensive Innate Ten-Direction Formation he had laid down around the cultivation grounds at the Mount Jade Capital Dao Field, yet no one sat upon it.
Devil Ancestor Luo Hou's ninety-foot Demonic Body had not appeared, but countless tendrils of Demonic Qi writhed like vines over the black World-Destroying Black Lotus Seat. They lashed space like whips, cracking sharply and instantly twisting space, time, and dimensions into streams of Demonic Qi, demonic sounds, and demonic thoughts.
It was as though Devil Ancestor Luo Hou had vanished without a trace yet was everywhere at once. In Grand Pure One Laozi's perception, he was omnipresent!
He had already realized it.
Grand Pure One Laozi, who shared countless tangled threads of connection with Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, now felt his sense of danger rise to its highest pitch.
"Listen, junior brothers! Devil Ancestor Luo Hou is right there on the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus.
Although we cannot see him, he could appear anywhere in this world at any moment.
Stay on guard, everyone! Do not grow lax!"
At that moment, Laozi could not help shouting a warning to Daoist Hongjun, Yuqing Yuanshi, Shangqing Tongtian, and the disciples of the Chan and Jie teachings beside him.
Without a doubt, Taiqing already felt as though Devil Ancestor Luo Hou's eerie, omnipresent figure filled heaven and earth.
What shocked and frightened Grand Pure One Laozi at that moment was that, even with his master, Daoist Hongjun, standing beside him,
he could feel none of the security that should have come from his master's shelter, protection, and defenses.
Instead,
it seemed he was completely