Chen Lin turned his wrist.
An ancient-looking scroll landed in his palm.
There were no elaborate incantations, no earth-shaking display of power.
He simply poured every last bit of his remaining true essence and divine sense into the scroll.
"Unfurl."
Bzz-
The scroll flew from his hand and expanded into the wind.
In the blink of an eye, a colossal painting thousands of feet long stretched across the sky between Yun Sheng and the four Nascent Soul sea beasts.
Within the painting, mountains rose and fell, rivers surged, and even the faint cries of birds and beasts could be heard. It was a world unto itself.
The Mountains and Rivers Painting.
Kunpeng's eyes were bloodshot. He drove the frost law on his trident to its limit and stabbed viciously at the painting.
Azure Flood Dragon slammed his thousand-foot body into it.
Devil Ray's blood blades and Giant Crab's massive pincers followed close behind.
Four Nascent Soul attacks powerful enough to devastate heaven and earth struck the surface of the Mountains and Rivers Painting head-on.
There was no explosion.
No thunderous crash.
Not even a trace of spiritual energy escaped.
The instant those four terrifying attacks touched the painting, they vanished like stones sinking into the sea, silently swallowed by the mountains and rivers within.
Not even the slightest ripple appeared on the painting's surface.
Dead silence fell over the battlefield.
Even the sea breeze seemed to stop.
Outside the isolated reef, Heavenly Hatred True Lord had been preparing to risk his life in a rescue attempt. He froze in midair with his White Bone Cane raised high, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
Withered Wood, Violet Frost, and the other two old monsters gaped, their faces beneath their metal masks utterly blank.
Even Chen Lin was stunned for