A giant hand descended from the sky, bearing straight down on Fajie.
A rainbow-colored halo suddenly appeared in the rain-darkened sky. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet shone together in a seven-colored ring.
Mysterious Buddhist chanting rose from an unknown source, deep, solemn, and majestic, as though enveloping heaven and earth.
"This is Ancient Kunlun City, the former capital of Human Emperor Xuanyuan, and the place where the ancestors of the Human Race manifested their sacred presence. Fajie, do you know your crime?"
An imposing voice appeared along with the giant hand.
"I..."
Fajie opened his mouth, stammering, unable to get a word out. This giant hand clearly belonged to no ordinary member of the Immortals and Gods. He could vaguely sense that one of the handful of supreme beings in the world had acted.
But why would a Sage like that set his sights on him?
"You sinful wretch! Only through a mere scrap of the fateful opportunity I left behind were you able to glimpse a little of the Immortal Path. Yet instead of devoting yourself to arduous cultivation, you behaved with brute arrogance. Today, you have committed this outrageous offense. A grave sin indeed!"
Fajie lowered his head, murmuring meek assent.
He could disregard the King of Shang and the Son of Heaven of Zhou alike, roaming the world freely as he pleased. Yet under the rebuke of the giant hand's owner, he could muster not a shred of arrogance. He was like a young student obediently listening to his teacher's reprimand.
Every feudal lord and noble who witnessed this felt a chill in their heart.
Daji was a thousand-year-old Nine-Tailed White Fox, a great monster with a millennium of cultivation. Yet Fajie had subdued her effortlessly, restricting her movements with just a few muttered