In the sky, beneath the gazes of the people of Ferland.
The enormous opening forced apart by golden divine light grew ever larger, almost blotting out the entire sky.
It connected the azure sky to the deep reaches of the Star Realm.
Before long.
The corpse of an enormous Great Peng, its body wreathed in blue lightning and its scales black as ink, looking tougher than the hardest steel in the world, suddenly emerged from the immense rift torn open in the sky. Its body was the size of a small continent.
It plummeted from High Heaven, hurtling straight toward the earth.
In the blink of an eye.
Another crash resounded throughout the world as the continent-sized Great Peng slammed into the earth. Blood gushed from its body, forming an enormous lake of Kunpeng blood almost instantaneously.
The earth shuddered, and heaven and earth were overturned.
The manor where the young Knights had been stood not far from where the Great Peng had fallen.
Covered in dust and dirt, the young Knights looked up at the sky, their faces filled with horror.
Fortunately, though.
Eight heaven-reaching Pillars of Gale suddenly appeared in the wilderness surrounding the city where the manor stood.
It was these eight Pillars of Gale that suppressed the impact of the Great Peng crashing into the earth.
On the manor's grassy grounds.
Joy suddenly appeared on the terrified faces of the young Knights.
"It's Great-Uncle Edward! He's the one who suppressed the tremors in the earth's veins!"
And above the city, a majestic, middle-aged Knight riding a Dragon suddenly appeared.
He held an enormous blue-green cylindrical lance, with fierce winds coiling around it and what seemed to be lines of law running along it, linking heaven and earth in a straight pillar.
The eight heavenly pillars of