Rumble!
Thunder roared above the Sacred Capital, waking almost everyone in the city.
The Celestial Demon secret art Hu Meiniang unleashed at the cost of burning her own life had stirred magic power of unfathomable profundity. It actually allowed her to break free for a moment from the divine will within Li Chen's gaze, blazing like a phoenix undergoing rebirth.
The sacred spirit grand formation had originally been entirely under Li Chen's control, but at that moment, a breach opened wide. Surging power of the Vermilion Bird gathered above her, forming a lesser Vermilion Bird more than eighty thousand zhang tall.
Meanwhile, the Vermilion Bird floating in the south shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye. Its body, originally over a hundred thousand zhang tall, was drained of primordial energy until its height fell below seventy thousand zhang.
Li Chen's gaze sharpened slightly. "She's regained part of its control."
Pan Ning clicked his tongue in admiration. "Looks like we can't afford to be careless. That authority alone is enough to contend with a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator."
Li Chen's thoughts went further, to the chain reaction this would bring.
Hu Meiniang's possession of some authority over the sacred spirit grand formation meant she might be able to contact the outside world and expose the secrets of his entire group.
The Sacred Capital Upheaval might even draw the prying eyes of Great Powers from outside.
During the last turmoil in the Sacred Capital, the Demon God Palace's Flaming-Mane Emperor Venerable, the Heavenly Martial Gate's Martial Emperor Yang Wuji, and the Confucian Dao's Lesser Sage, Master Han, had appeared one after another. Yet all had maintained an unspoken agreement not to enter the Sacred Capital, precisely because they feared this grand formation.
As a result, none had come face-to-face with