Origin Net shone high above, and Li radiance blazed.
This world was like a thin sheet of drawing paper stretched to its limit, only a hair's breadth from tearing apart with a rip. Everyone present, whether at Fetal Breath or Purple Mansion, froze as though immobilized.
Those three mighty figures were not the only ones to arrive. Several great stars rose in the distant void, illuminating this place and proclaiming the arrival of Golden Core gazes.
Xu Xuan stood amid the clouds without moving at all.
His Dharma Body and his very life were becoming illusory and transparent. Only his spiritual sense could still move, allowing him some faint awareness of the outside world, yet he dared not continue looking directly at those Dharma Forms spanning heaven and earth, lest he become trapped within them.
These beings were too real, too weighty. Their mere appearance here threatened to transform the entire world into their Dao.
"Overbearing?"
The man's voice rose between heaven and earth once more, and boundless Li Fire moved at his will.
The crimson-black Mystic Wood Imperial Palace manifested, burning all over with Li Fire. Beyond its tier upon tier of gate towers, a throne formed from mystic wood roots could be seen at its highest point. Layers of immortal light and vast currents of Dao aura clustered around the figure seated upon it, clad in the Apricot Yellow Imperial Robe.
"I swore an oath, and so wood burned."
"I forged a covenant, and so the bird came to be."
"I issued a decree, and so came double radiance."
As the final words fell, the world filled with boundless, dazzling light. [Origin Net] had taken the place of the sun!
The history of Li Fire was reflected in this emperor's person. Vast wood was his imperial throne and