The Lin Mountain grotto-heaven spanned less than a thousand li. It was a typical miniature grotto-heaven, and the Heavenly Dao it could nurture was correspondingly weak.
Yet however weak it was, it was still a spirit of nature, the true ruler of a world.
Fang Qianyuan's Divine Sense, by contrast, was a soul of Dao Unification cultivated through human effort.
His actions provoked its full resistance, and surges of violent Origin Energy swept through it.
Flashes of fire appeared in the sky from time to time. Shimmering currents of scorching air drifted like auroras, sweeping through and melting swaths of snowflakes.
Amid this fierce clash, torrential rain fell alongside hail and cores of snow. Spreading shock waves periodically stirred up gales that swept relentlessly across heaven and earth.
The people below scattered with cries of alarm, or rushed toward the grand formation surrounding the Lin Residence.
Within it, heaven and earth remained unchanged, preserving the scene from before the invasion of ice and snow.
"Grandfather, what's happening?" Lin Hongfei emerged from the residence. Seeing his grandfather standing at the main entrance with several trusted subordinates, gazing up at the sky, he could not help asking in surprise.
Even the spirit of nature is no match for him. This is the Age of Dharma Decline, after all. The Heavenly Dao is incomplete and has no way to exert its power. Even those powerful Heavenly Daos cannot manifest spiritual awareness out of chaos!
Lin Xun ignored him. He merely frowned to himself, a trace of gravity appearing on his face.
The three Heavenly Dao-level beings present were Fang Qianyuan's undying soul, the Heavenly Dao's spirit of nature, and the formation spirit of the Lin Residence's mountain-guarding grand formation.
Of these, the spirit of nature was the purest in essence and the most