As Yun Qing secretly grumbled to himself, he casually took out the second Vermilion Fruit, its cool juice still lingering on his fingertips. He was wondering whether to munch down the last one too.
Rumble-!
Without warning, the entire Azure Cloud Road shuddered violently!
High in the heavens, the Eastern Region's Azure Nether Sky and the Northern Region's Dark Ice Firmament, which had each occupied their own expanse, seemed to be seized by a pair of enormous hands encompassing the universe and began slowly drawing together! Vast fluctuations of law swept out, bathing the platform's surroundings in bizarre, shifting splendor.
[Eastern Region · Northern Region, fortune converges! First-Stage Platform docking begins!]
The mighty voice of the Dao thundered straight into Yun Qing's sea of consciousness.
Immediately afterward, blazing spiritual light flared along the platform's edges. It began rotating and moving along profound trajectories, as though drawn by something at the other end of the void.
At the same time, a muffled rumble came from across the platform, from the area originally concealed behind the azure barrier. Another enormous platform of similar size, but colored the inky black of dark ice, was piercing the chaotic spiritual light, slowly "pressing" toward them!
At the platform's edges, terrifying lightning released by the collision of laws exploded in the void, only to be confined outside the platform by the barrier, making the sight all the more hair-raising.
"They're about to merge." Li Qingming opened her eyes. In their clear depths was reflected the strange, magnificent spectacle of the heavens shattering and being forcibly stitched together again. The ancient sword Dustless at her back gave a clear, ringing hum.
Yun Qing had long since put away his casual manner. He straightened his back and stared across with his double pupils.
What he "saw"