More than two hours later!
Li Xiaoya appeared in a rather ordinary-looking area tens of thousands of miles away. As far as he could see, the land lay flat beneath the sky, seemingly empty.
"This should be the place!" Li Xiaoya looked around the area and murmured to himself. Suddenly, he took out a huge black feather several feet long, covered in countless gray, glowing runes. With the feather in hand, he began chanting and rapidly forming hand seals. The speed and cadence of his incantation were distinctly strange, quite unlike the way he had chanted and formed seals before...
Then!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! As Li Xiaoya chanted and formed seals, astonishing gray light surged through the feather in his hand, and countless mysterious, profound patterns of gray light flashed into view. Spiritual light surged around him. Suddenly, he began tracing the feather through the sky, stirring up an eerie current of gray light in the air as countless gray flashes appeared...
"Go!" Li Xiaoya suddenly thrust the feather, which radiated that eerie gray light, forcefully toward the empty ground ahead.
Whoosh! Gray light erupted from the black feather. A beam dozens of feet wide instantly roared out of it and shot forward...
In an instant!
Thud! The beam of gray light shot several hundred feet before suddenly striking what seemed to be an invisible wall in midair. A muffled explosion rang out, and gray light surged everywhere, sending an enormous ring of gray ripples through the air...
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! At that moment, astonishing astral winds surged over the empty ground ahead. Swirling gray light kept appearing, and an immense gray Light Curtain slowly emerged between heaven and earth, spreading in every direction...
There... there was actually a restrictive formation over this empty ground?
"Break!" Li Xiaoya seemed