There was no need for further words.
Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi moved at the same instant.
Standing shoulder to shoulder, they made identical motions, tracing profoundly mysterious paths with their hands before them.
There was no earth-shaking spectacle, nor any dazzling divine radiance.
Yet as their fingertips moved, the whole of Kunlun Mountain, the foremost divine mountain of the Primordial World, began to hum with a deep, low resonance.
Rumble...
An invisible, boundless might erupted from the Jade Void Palace, sweeping outward in every direction!
Above the Kunlun Mountain Range, seas of clouds churned, and spiritual qi surged backward.
Billions of living beings prostrated themselves, trembling as they bowed in worship toward the Jade Void Palace.
A dome of clear light, visible to the naked eye, rose from the summit and instantly enveloped the entire vast mountain range.
The immense dome blotted out the sky and sun.
Countless arcane runes flowed within it, arising and fading, while vast swathes of laws and order and Dao resonance divine patterns had become tangible enough to see with the naked eye.
Strand after strand, thread after thread, they interwove into a net, forming an indestructible, absolute barrier.
The Chan Sect's Sect-Protecting Array!
Since Heaven and Earth had first been sundered, this was the first time this Sage Dojo, formed from Pangu's primordial spirit, had driven its defenses to such an extreme.
It was clear just how grave and solemn Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi felt.
And at the very instant the great array finished taking shape and its flowing radiance stabilized-
Outside Kunlun Mountain, a bedraggled streak of golden light, carrying boundless panic and deathly qi, finally arrived!
It was Jieyin!
He did not pause for even a moment. The instant he touched the great array's curtain of light, his figure became