When the Teng Snake's True Body manifested, every human and demon understood that things had gotten rather serious.
The Teng Snake presided over calamity, and its way of breaking up fights was exceedingly simple-action, not words.
The darting chains of fire opened loop after loop, slipping naturally around the necks of certain demons who were still sparring even after seeing its true form.
Zheng Zhaoling could no longer stall, either. Instead, she wholeheartedly worked to suppress the situation—the longer the Teng Snake's True Body remained visible, the harder the aftermath would be to handle.
She also used the Senior's Great Technique-first having two Mahayana cultivators suppress half of Cloud Dream Marsh.
The Mahayana cultivators only needed to reveal their own oppressive auras to suppress half of Cloud Dream Marsh.
The remaining half represented the time Zheng Zhaoling had promised she could buy.
Beyond that, there was absolutely nothing she could do.
Cloud Marsh, having assumed the Teng Snake's True Body, naturally also saw that Zheng Zhaoling was indeed acting as she had originally promised. She neither stalled nor held him back, but was genuinely suppressing Cloud Dream Marsh.
When the True Lord-level demons of Cloud Dream Marsh saw Zheng Zhaoling standing above the marsh, releasing her oppressive aura and using her divine abilities, they also realized that perhaps this affair really was not Cloud Dream Pavilion's attempt to do something.
Since Cloud Dream Pavilion did not intend to make changes, they naturally began complying with Cloud Marsh's earlier orders.
This sudden uprising in Cloud Dream Marsh thus rather resembled a tiger's head ending in a snake's tail.
It had begun inexplicably and with tremendous force, yet it was suppressed just as quickly.
All of Cloud Dream Marsh fell quiet again.
Zheng Zhaoling had no idea how much time had actually