The Great Void.
Blue-yellow light imbued with desolation spread. Countless Buddhist mouths and yellow eyes filled the void, surrounding the [Long-Yu Treasure Tree] and clashing with innumerable streams of dragonlike wood qi.
Purple lightning cascaded down, sweeping evil qi from the sky. Azure Leaf after Azure Leaf fell into the Pure Land, rotting into mud and tempering the barren nature of the soil below.
An old man in emerald robes stood quietly on a branch. His face shifted constantly amid the wood qi, sprouting green scales, fierce as a flood dragon and majestic as a god.
"Senior Stone-Chiding."
Yi Li's voice sounded aged, like wood and stone striking together, with a trace of wistfulness in his tone.
The countless horizontal pupils in the Great Void seemed to pause for an instant, turning to gaze at him.
Golden Buddhist mouths opened and closed, exposing white, beastlike teeth. A faintly mocking voice rang out.
"It has been so long since I heard that name. It hardly sounds as though you are addressing me."
A man appeared in blue robes patterned with yellow. Handsome and ethereal, he had freehand depictions of Grave Sheep, Azure Locusts, Vermilion Boars, and Wenyáo embroidered on his broad sleeves, much like Ancient Qiang murals.
Their cultivation realms were equal, but their conditions were worlds apart.
Evil Land's momentum blazed like the noonday sun and continued to rise. The weight of his life force was almost that of a boundless ocean, impossible to measure.
Yi Li, however, faintly exuded the aura of death.
The [Devouring-Virtue Pure Land] stretched endlessly, yellow sands rolling across it. Yet the ground near the azure wood tree had changed, becoming fertile soil with the texture of azure loam.
"Let me think. This would be the second transformation between Nurturing Earth and Jia here."
Evil