"Rumble!"
Heavenly lightning surged like a torrential downpour, blasting the space of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion wide open and connecting it to the continent.
A terrifying aura pressed down from the heavens.
Those fluctuations seemed to belong to the sovereign of heaven and earth, forcing Gu Yuan and the others to their knees, trembling on the ground.
That might suppressed their bloodlines, the laws, and their power, inspiring an instinctive dread akin to a child's fear of parents or teachers.
"This pressure is dozens of times more terrifying than Xiao Yan's! What kind of monster has appeared now?!"
Terror filled Gu Yuan's eyes, and inwardly, he was shaken beyond measure.
He could sense that this might was even more terrifying than Xiao Yan, a Dou Di. Stranger still, it exerted an inexplicable suppression over him.
This was the pressure of the Heavenly Dao!
For the people of this world, the Heavenly Dao was the controller that ruled everything about them-their "parent." They were its "children," innately subject to its suppression, unable to escape its control, and instinctively afraid of it.
Only by breaking through to Dou Di could they transcend its control.
"Heavenly Dao, stop playing these games of suppression. Your pressure has no effect on me."
Ling Feng waved his hand nonchalantly, shielding Gu Yuan and the others from the Heavenly Dao's pressure, then soared into the sky, arriving amid the dark clouds and crackling lightning.
Yet when those bolts struck Ling Feng, he remained completely unharmed. Instead, he could command them, lightning ringing out all around him. A closer look revealed that the Thunder Ancestral Symbol inside him was controlling those bolts.
"Buzzz..."
Suddenly, an enormous eye appeared between heaven and earth amid the dark clouds. Like the eye of a sovereign, it stared at Ling Feng