At that instant, wind and clouds churned between Heaven and Earth.
High above, the glazed Buddha light that had filled the sky because of the Transcendence Divine Art seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand, scattering into countless drifting motes.
In its place, a vast, boundless, supremely domineering aura erupted from Gu Changqing, surging straight into the highest heavens!
That aura was peerlessly powerful, incomparably ferocious, unstoppable, as though it would overturn the entire sky!
Above Vulture Peak, the clouds were forcibly torn open across ten thousand miles, exposing the deep backdrop of chaos and emptiness.
The sun, moon, and stars all lost their radiance at that moment, and every ray of light between Heaven and Earth converged upon that figure.
"This is..."
Outside Vulture Peak, the cultivators watching from afar felt their pupils contract and their expressions change drastically.
They recognized that aura.
No, more precisely, the entire Primordial World recognized that aura.
It belonged to Gu Changqing, to the Wine Sword Immortal alone, and had appeared on countless occasions when the Xuanmen Saints had been left eating dust...
Great Firmament Technique!
"How is that possible?! Wasn't he converted?!"
A cultivator cried out involuntarily, his voice cracking.
"Look at his eyes! Those aren't the eyes of someone who's been converted!"
"Heavens... could it be... could everything the Wine Sword Immortal did earlier have been an act?!"
"He was never converted?! He's been acting all along?!"
At those words, a moment of deathly silence fell between Heaven and Earth.
Then cries erupted like mountains roaring and seas crashing.
"Impossible! That was Saint Jieyin's Transcendence Divine Art! A Supreme Dharma that strikes straight at the Dao Heart! No matter how powerful the Wine Sword Immortal is, how could he withstand it completely unprepared?!"
"But does he look converted