The northern reaches of Heaven Pool.
The Mistlight Warship spanned the sky, wreathed in azure clouds. Serpent heads spat venom, and ranks of demon soldiers stood aboard it. The elites of both the Azure Dew and Flame Feather guards were gathered here, murderous intent pouring from them.
The [Six-Scale Stele] stood aboard the warship, its five scale engravings shining brilliantly as all manner of great serpents manifested from the heavenly stele.
Singing snakes spat fire, azure horned serpents rode the rain, their bearing ferocious and imposing. Other scaled shadows lurked within the clouds, occasionally revealing their enormous bodies.
The scale serpents manifested by the five engravings were all at Foundation Establishment Peak. Their demon bodies, innate gifts, and other attributes were no different from those of purebloods. They were the true forms of Mist Marsh's Scale-Kin, and combined with the formations of the demon soldiers, their might was terrifying.
Above the warship, two figures stood upon a thundercloud.
One wore a magnificent deep-purple robe patterned with dragons. Lightning curled around his jade horns, and profound mysterious yin light arose from his reverse scale, harboring a trace of violet aura. The other wore a peach-red ruqun, worry in her eyes.
Xu Xuan's purple robe snapped in the heavenly wind. A streak of rainbow radiance leaped in his hand and soared away. This was the signal Illusory Visage had given him, indicating that the uprising at Heaven Pool was about to begin.
Even the lesser Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators could now sense the upheaval at Heaven Pool's center. Yin and yang qi surged into the sky, circulating and transforming, with a thread of mystic azure light mingled within them, illuminating heaven and earth.
Xu Xuan felt the Supreme Clarity Dao Stele within his Inner Scenery tremble ceaselessly. Its distant resonance