Rumble-
The tremors of the earth carried for dozens of miles.
Xie Jinhuan followed the disturbance to the vicinity of Dragon Emperor Cave. Finding it rather like the final rumbling at Phoenix Mausoleum, he thought some unknown fellow cultivator had beaten him to the opportunity.
But the opportunity at Dragonbone Shoal was "water begets wood." Its omen was "fierce winds and sudden rain, the entire earth becoming a watery kingdom," and after it was taken, "the rain passes, the sky clears, and all things flourish in a race for growth." None of that had anything to do with earthquakes, so he asked A Piao:
"Is someone fighting?"
Ye Yunchi hovered beside him with her sword in hand. Unable to see the large red-robed figure, she thought he was asking her.
When ordinary cultivators fought, they concentrated their qi to attack and defend at fixed points. The current disturbance, however, seemed like someone deliberately shaking the ground while moving into the distance, like running along beating gongs and drums. She considered it, then shook her head.
"It doesn't really feel like it. Let's take a look first."
Xie Jinhuan said nothing more. He dropped into the sinkhole several miles across, entered the underground world overgrown with vegetation, and pursued the source of the disturbance.
Meanwhile, more than ten miles ahead.
A howling sandstorm that blotted out the sky swept through the originally dark, lightless forest of vines. A towering sea of blood raged within it, and a mass of black mist could also be seen darting about, chasing points of green light that flashed in every direction.
Unlike the Ten-Thousand-Mile Divine Movement Spell, those points of light did not travel in straight lines. They flickered around without any pattern, forward, backward, left, and right, even their height fluctuating unpredictably. Gu Xuanzun