"Buzzz!"
"Whoooosh!" The sea for thousands of miles around suddenly surged with terrifying force. Water churned and heaved, and golden light suddenly shone up from the seabed across the entire expanse, piercing straight into the heavens...
Then!
"Rumble!" The gigantic pillars above the sea suddenly began shaking violently. They stopped drawing in the golden motes between heaven and earth, then rapidly shrank and sank toward the surface. Every pillar, each tens of thousands of feet tall, across hundreds of thousands of miles of sea did the same...
Then!
"Rumble!" A tremendous explosion thundered through the sky as well. Ripples filled the heavens as far as the eye could see, and boundless golden auspicious clouds gathered incessantly toward the void...
Within the void above... an immense, overwhelmingly powerful presence looked down upon everything from Beyond the Nine Heavens. Its hazy silhouette seemed boundless in its vastness, enormous beyond all ordinary measure...
And in the void, a Five-Colored Phoenix tens of thousands of miles across circled through the air, with an exquisitely beautiful, alluring figure upon its back...
"Immortal Sovereign! Surely you didn't need to come in person?"
"Just taking a look...!"
"Given her aptitude and state of mind, she should have no trouble!"
"I know!"
"There is something I would like to ask you, Immortal Sovereign!"
"Speak!"
"Why did you accept this Human Race cultivator as your disciple? You know the Human Race has been using our Immortal Race all along!"
"The Human Race brings our Immortal Race benefits, not harm!"
"Yes... Immortal Sovereign!"
"...!"
And while the two were speaking...
"Rumble!" Blue light spread throughout heaven and earth, climbing steadily into the sky until everything was filled with a mysterious blue power of laws...
"Hm? This is...!" As though sensing something, the figure atop the Five-Colored Phoenix's gaze shifted, and