The old man immediately turned around. After drifting through the air for a moment, he swept his great sleeve, and a flash of light passed. A huge portal appeared out of thin air. The old man slipped inside, and the portal vanished at once!
The old man stood in a space several times larger than the plaza Xiao Hua had just seen. The space was utterly empty, save for two silver-white balls of light rolling through the air.
At first glance, the two light spheres looked exactly alike. But as the old man flew closer, one sphere revealed fiery red strands mixed within its silver-white radiance, and a searing heat rushed toward him. The other contained deep azure strands amid its silver-white glow, and bone-piercing cold likewise swept forth!
Faced with such extreme heat and cold, the old man's face showed even greater satisfaction. With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen silver rays flew from his sleeve and struck various places throughout the space. Silver light then flared brilliantly within the room, and countless strange runes emerged, flowing across the surface of the entire space for a moment before disappearing. Only then did the old man relax. He patted his hand and took out the tiger-shaped magic artifact he had put away. Driven by his magic power, the tiger-shaped artifact gradually transformed, and a lifelike silver tiger appeared in midair.
Roar— The silver tiger threw back its head and roared. The surging Golden Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within the space poured into its gaping maw, while gust after gust of violent wind arose throughout the chamber!
Yet though the gale was fierce, the old man's robe seemed cast from iron and did not stir in the slightest. Once the silver tiger had expanded to over two