The sky instantly rolled like a sea, its clouds surging as though boiling.
And when the disciples hurriedly pushed open their doors and looked out,
They saw only a filthy red-and-yellow hand, so enormous it all but blotted out the sky and sun, suddenly reach out from the depths of the void. Sweeping up boundless raging winds and streaming clouds, it clawed savagely at the Water Lodge Star Palace!
A thunderous boom rang out!
The crash was like mountains collapsing and the earth caving in!
The disciples lost their footing, swaying helplessly several times, stumbling in disarray.
The servants and laborers in the star palace fared even worse. Like fallen leaves in a gale, they were hurled violently away, landing dazed and bloodied, their heads split open, their fates unknown...
"A Heavenly Demon?"
"A Great Sumeru Heavenly Son Demon..."
"One of the royal lineages among Heavenly Demons?!"
Some sharp-eyed disciples steadied themselves and glimpsed, far in the distance, the mountainous demonic silhouette that had suddenly appeared across the blue sky ahead.
Their brows twitched, and their hearts jolted in alarm as they cried out involuntarily.
Black clouds rolled, and wind and thunder rose together-
In the blink of an eye, the previously clear skies had taken on a gloomy cast.
Chen Heng's pupils narrowed slightly. Ahead of the Water Lodge Star Palace,
A demon hundreds of zhang tall, its entire body interwoven with red and yellow as though cloaked in divine radiance, gave a sinister chuckle and leisurely withdrew its great hand.
Its face was a flat, featureless blank. On its head it wore the great fur crown ancient emperors used when sacrificing to Heaven, and it was clad in dark robes edged with blue patterns. A coiled dragon was embroidered on its chest and a square dragon on its