A streak of dusky emerald light came from the south, parting seas of clouds and cleaving the winds, like a rainbow piercing the sun or a shooting star chasing the moon. It tore through the void with a thunderous roar, displaying earth-shaking might.
The streak was aimed straight at Rotten Peach Mountain.
"Roar!"
Inside Listening to the Earth Monastery, beneath the incense burner, the dozing lion immediately sensed it. He leaped out of the stone statue, flew out of the monastery, and revealed his sky-scraping true form. Both lion heads roared toward the approaching streak, shattering the void.
Like waves at ebb tide, the void retreated before his roar, exposing mottled, inky-black fissures like a black beach.
The dusky emerald streak traced a green rainbow across the sky. In an instant, it plunged into that black beach of shattered void.
The streak slowed only slightly, but its intense, concentrated radiance was scattered by the roar, flickering and dimming for an instant. The lion activated his Golden Pupils and finally saw what lay within the light.
It was an arrow.
The arrow was dusky emerald all over, as thick as the mouth of a bowl and over seventy feet long, like a perfectly straight beam. It appeared to be neither metal nor wood, yet gleamed with an ivory-like luster. There was no telling what material it had been refined from. Numerous golden talismanic characters and spiritual patterns were carved into its shaft, their strokes slender and fine, flowing yet vigorous, resembling Dragon Script seal characters.
The divine arrow had slowed only slightly, and that was only compared with its speed before entering the rift in the void. In truth, it remained extraordinarily swift. Its tip shone with a cold, eerie gleam, radiating terrifying might.
It was as though the divine arrow