Amid the radiant clouds, the cries of dragons and phoenixes could faintly be heard answering one another!
Profound, ineffable runes rose and sank, formed and vanished within the sea of light like golden fish.
A vast, majestic aura, embodying a leap to a higher level of life, enveloped the entire Hidden Dragon Mountain Range!
"This... this is..."
Qian Dafu, a manager from the Ministry of Works, stood outside the hall, his lips trembling uncontrollably. The ledger in his hand had long since fallen somewhere he no longer knew.
"This is no phenomenon that practicing a divine ability or spell could trigger! It's a Nascent Soul Phenomenon!
Someone... someone is attempting to attain the Nascent Soul here! And they've actually passed the first hurdle, 'Shatter the Core and Form the Nascent Soul'!
Wait, the scale of this phenomenon... why is it so enormous? Isn't it usually only a few dozen li across?"
No!
That direction, that central point!
All the blood drained from his face in an instant. Utter disbelief came first, then turned into a terror that seeped deep into his bones.
Because he suddenly realized-the center of that Heaven-Earth Phenomenon, the place into which the spiritual energy vortex was pouring madly;
was none other than... the Hidden Dragon Number Nine cave abode in the A-Class Area!
He knew exactly who rented the other A-Class Cave Abodes.
They were either his superiors, who had already formed Dharma Nascent Souls and were stabilizing their cultivation here, or people from a few families whose backgrounds he knew thoroughly. None could possibly have triggered such a terrifying phenomenon.
There was only that man from over a decade ago-
that shabby Golden Core cultivator he had secretly mocked as a "country bumpkin" who "dreamed of ascending to heaven in a single step"!
A bone-piercing