As the saying went: extreme joy begets sorrow.
At the sight of so many Luminous Pearls within the magma, Zhang Xiaohua was over the moon. He nearly turned a somersault right there in the magma. Besides, gathering these Luminous Pearls was effortless—merely a lift of the hand. Zhang Xiaohua had strength to spare.
Thus, he followed the stone wall downward, and the more he picked, the easier it became.
Who knew how much farther he descended when Zhang Xiaohua's projected divine sense suddenly encountered something both strange and familiar—divine sense!!!
Another person's divine sense!
That divine sense was like solidified rock, radiating incomparable majesty and solemnity. The instant Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense touched it, a tremor rose from the depths of his heart. Though his divine sense had not yet seen anything, he immediately felt like an ant beneath a colossal mountain.
Zhang Xiaohua's body shuddered, and rippling waves spread across his true energy light shield, which nearly burst apart. He paid no heed to the Luminous Pearl slipping from his hand. Suppressing the trembling in his heart, he immediately withdrew his divine sense, hurriedly changed his hand seals with his right hand, and repaired the shield before it collapsed.
Once he withdrew his divine sense, that inward trembling seemed to vanish as well. Zhang Xiaohua no longer dared to burrow farther down. What he had felt just now was truly beyond words.
*It seemed to be fear and submission rising from the depths of my heart, an instinctive urge to bow my head—or perhaps the feeling that could only arise when one saw an absolutely powerful natural enemy. Yes, that must be it. It was like after I got bitten by a snake in the fields as a child, then saw another snake afterward—except this feeling is ten thousand