"What was that?"
Shu Changsheng snapped out of his thoughts and looked ahead.
"Go. Investigate at once."
Before long, a Divine General of the Heavenly Court returned to report, "A great demon seems to have appeared just now. It has already vanished without a trace, leaving only a wisp of its aura."
A Heavenly God accompanying the carriage said, "Heavenly Lord, that seemed to be a demon at the Core Formation Realm. Even if it wasn't a great Core Formation demon, it must have been an unusual treasure of equivalent rank emerging into the world."
"Make the arrangements and find it," Shu Changsheng ordered.
Immediately, two Divine Generals of the Heavenly Court took a company of Heavenly Soldiers out of the main procession and pursued the direction in which the aura had flashed.
Shu Changsheng did not take the matter to heart and continued his inspection.
Before long, however, the sky abruptly darkened.
Across the boundless Great Ocean, sea and sky had shared a single hue. The weather had been clear, with blue waters beneath a bright sky, but suddenly, heaven and earth darkened. The entire firmament grew dim and lightless, and the air around them became oppressively heavy.
It somewhat resembled the scene before a storm, but unlike an ordinary storm, blood-red light seemed to gather amid the darkness. Within moments, it stained the entire sky red.
Against this mingled backdrop of black and red, everything visible to the naked eye was shrouded in a terrifying atmosphere that made their hearts quail. Only the incense clouds bearing the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals shone with spirit light, illuminating their surroundings like lamps in the night.
Shu Changsheng furrowed his brow. "It can actually affect the skies over such a vast area!"
One of his subordinate generals said, "Anything capable of