Although the enormous arm resembled a pillar supporting the heavens and was clear and luminous throughout, tightly packed scales covered it in overlapping layers.
Each scale was the size of a hill, shimmering with multicolored spiritual light. Intricate, profound Dao script imprints upon them radiated a strange, abstruse aura.
Upon the arm, the enormous figure of the Cosmic Serpent could faintly be seen coiling tightly around it like a mighty dragon. The power of time streaming from it was almost solid, ceaselessly stirring and rippling around the arm, raising unmistakable waves in space-time.
This had already far surpassed the bounds of ordinary spirit creature manifestations, Dharma aspects, or Dharma bodies. It was an inexplicable existence of a higher order.
It descended from the distant cosmic firmament, towering over everything below. Despite its terrifying bulk, a full hundred thousand feet long, its movement was exquisitely precise as it slipped into the gap while Venerable Scarlet pursued Guye Bai.
Boom!
Heaven and earth shook!
Black thunderbolts struck the enormous arm, and terrifying Flame Dao laws rampaged across its surface with the dreadful power to destroy heaven and earth.
Here and there, scales melted and layers of ice crumbled.
Yet the arm seemed to possess boundlessly deep reserves, completely blocking this wave of black flame.
As though oblivious, the enormous hand continued reaching resolutely toward Venerable Scarlet and the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
Venerable Scarlet hurriedly retreated with the Three-Legged Golden Crow. Only then did the onlookers realize that, although the arm appeared solid, it did not seem entirely real. Instead, it was a strange, transparent thing poised between substance and illusion.
More precisely, only the side touching this world revealed itself. The greater part remained concealed within the infinite Chaos Void, like an iceberg submerged beneath the water.
Thus, its movements were wholly