Golden light shattered, and scarlet Myriad Dragons burst from the Pill.
With furious, unwilling roars, they surged into the coffin, turning into a crimson cloud that enveloped it and was endlessly drawn inside.
Heaven and earth trembled. As everyone focused their attention, a vast aura erupted from within the coffin.
Divine Sense swept over it. Amid a grating scrape like rotting deadwood, a gaunt black silhouette slowly sat up inside the coffin, its shriveled, skull-like head twisting eerily.
A ghostly light flickered in its eye sockets. Though Bai Yi had long since fled, he still felt a suffocating pressure pierce through space and time, crushing in from all sides.
It was as if everything lay under the control of that terrifying will.
"Is this Saint Intent?!"
Bai Yi's expression darkened. Countless Sword Lights surged around him, resisting the ripples left by that will.
By capturing the Heaven and Earth Origin with Divine Resonance, one shaped one's own heaven and earth and condensed the Heaven and Earth Saint Intent unique to oneself.
That was the realm of a Mahayana Sage, who stood at the pinnacle of Langyu Qingming Heaven!
And the old creature in the coffin, who had survived for tens of thousands of years, was not only a true Mahayana Sage-he had once been among the strongest of them.
"Master, if you can't hold out, don't blame me for running!"
Bai Yi stared at Xiang Kuang, who showed only a hint of solemnity in the face of the scene, and couldn't help silently thinking to himself.
If this old demon hadn't locked onto his Qi Vibration after he achieved Perfect Foundation Establishment, entered the Nascent Soul Realm, and triggered the Gate to Ascension phenomenon, he-a minor cultivator who had only just entered the Nascent Soul Realm-would never have joined a