Good heavens, this was the Demon-Subduing Sacred Venerable?
To tell the truth, during the Starwoven Dharma Assembly years ago, the Great Toad King had swum along the Celestial River to the vicinity of the Demon-Subduing Palace. But everything there had seemed deserted and forbidding, and he had never caught sight of the Manifest Holiness True Lord himself, which only deepened his air of mystery.
Even today, he could hardly claim to have seen him. This was merely a fleeting glimpse, a peek at a leopard through a narrow tube. Yet that glimpse of a single spot had nearly made the eyes of the Great Toad King's giant toad form pop out of their sockets.
A sky-supporting pillar descended straight through the nine heavens. Clearly, it was the shaft of the divine weapon in the Manifest Holiness True Lord's hand. What a terrifying divine ability!
Everyone said this Celestial Court already had the foundation needed to establish the Four Sovereigns, and that the Manifest Holiness True Lord would surely be the first. Sooner or later, the words "Great Emperor" in his divine title would become an actual appointment rather than an honorary distinction.
But judging by what they saw now, the Manifest Holiness True Lord probably already possessed the power of one of those four exalted gods!
Manifesting an enlarged form was actually a fairly common divine ability among gods, with distinctions between illusory and tangible forms, large and small.
Yet this single strike of a long shaft left room for nothing but awe. It had not merely torn apart the dark clouds and shattered every aura-it had shaken everyone who witnessed it to the depths of their souls!
The turbulent rivers settled, the howling blizzard stopped, and even the Great Toad King lay rigid on the ground, not daring to