"Sounds challenging."
Ye Buyu tilted her head back and looked up into the sky through the gaping hole in the ground.
Thunderbolts wreathed the enormous palm, like divine punishment descending upon the world.
Higher still, two black voids devoured the light, like a dark abyss enveloping the world and casting a shadow that blotted out the sun.
An outline emerged, too vast for the naked eye to take in.
Heaven and earth abruptly darkened, and the light vanished.
"Arrogant challenger, step forward!"
The thunderous voice resounded in every direction, carrying a crushing pressure that made all things bow.
Gales raged, and thunderbolts writhed across the sky like snakes.
No one dared look directly at the deity. No one dared face its divine might.
Suddenly, a streak of rainbow light shot upward from below, flying against the visible currents of air.
The moment the last light between heaven and earth was swallowed, that rising rainbow light shone like dawn's glow through the lingering night, dazzlingly bright.
The swirling windstorm swept her long white hair back behind her head, and her red eyes fixed on the deity high above.
Compared with that overwhelmingly intimidating palm, what Ye Buyu saw more clearly were the red threads everywhere in the sky.
They twisted and writhed into a tangled mess, connected and entwined, with nowhere to go.
Their noise made her eyes hurt.
"Quiet. I heard you."
She closed her hand, and a crimson spear blade condensed in her grasp. Toward the deity that denied them release, she hurled her anger and her questions.
Veins bulged along the elongated arm. Sharp spikes sprouted from the tangled cause and effect, and Ye Buyu's pupils contracted slightly as she stood above the raging winds.
A cold glint flashed in her red eyes, and a strip of red