Across the horizon, Wu Light surged and colored clouds shone brilliantly.
Divine Abilities blazed one after another. Many Purple Mansion cultivators wished to act, but the Wu Earth grand formation within the Grotto-Heaven barred them from entering.
The Great Void opened, and auspicious clouds and auspicious aura streamed down. A figure emerged, his face like cold jade, with arched brows and thin lips. He wore a black robe patterned with lotuses and a string of white jade beads around his wrist, while the light of fortune suffused his entire body.
Fortune brightness spread, revealing the might of a Purple Mansion peak cultivator. None of the Purple Mansion cultivators present dared act rashly; they merely watched this Imperial Preceptor of Great Li.
As a master of Divine Abilities in the path of fortune qi, an Imperial Descendant of Zhao Qi, and an orthodox successor of the Black Baleful Demon Dao, Imperial Preceptor Huji was renowned far and wide. Yet few had ever seen his true face. Now that they did, he proved to be a cold, stern Daoist, quite unlike a practitioner of fortune and virtue.
This True Person treated all the cultivators present as though they did not exist. Around the place where he stood, Divine Abilities retreated one after another, not daring approach.
"Great Li's Imperial Preceptor, Qi Changsheng."
Xu Xuan and Pingxiu waited quietly at the edge of the Great Void. At the appearance of this Purple Mansion peak cultivator, their expressions differed. Fear showed on Pingxiu's face, while Xu Xuan watched silently, his expression as still as an ancient well, betraying not the slightest emotion.
Huji spared none of the Purple Mansion cultivators another glance. The Divine Abilities around him began revolving, all five arts of fortune qi complete. Auspicious clouds churned and golden lotuses blossomed in