As he spoke, a man built like an iron tower sat atop a mountain, looking over with a mocking expression:
"Who in the world doesn't know you have a grudge against that she-dragon of the Jade Dragon Dynasty?"
"Ye Li helped you kill the Jade Dragon Empress and took a problem off your hands. That's why you've taken a liking to him, isn't it?"
"If you ask me, that's hardly an impartial assessment. It's clearly..."
He never finished.
Rumble!!!
The phenomena in the sky changed several times. As though stirred by an invisible hand, the gloomy canopy of clouds suddenly began to spin!
Then!
A martial pressure so immense it almost took physical form swept across heaven and earth like a tsunami, brazenly enveloping the entire inhabited planet!
"This is...!"
All nine Venerable Lords present abruptly sank under the weight, their protective spiritual radiance surging of its own accord!
Even Monk Changle, who had been sneering just a moment earlier, paled dramatically. The prayer beads in his hand snapped!
The entire sprawling mountain range fell utterly silent. Even the sound of the wind was crushed by that pressure.
Everyone stared up into the sky in disbelief!
At the center of the vortex, a dazzling golden light pierced through layer upon layer of clouds.
Boom!!!
The next instant, the sea of clouds spanning tens of millions of miles exploded outward in a spiral, exposing the deep, boundless starry sky beyond!
And where that golden light met the starry sky-
A figure in purple-and-gold Daoist robes had appeared without anyone noticing.
His features were extraordinarily handsome, his appearance almost celestial. His black eyes looked down upon the mountains with an incomparably sharp gaze, while an overbearing air all but spilled from his brow!
The Mad Shark Sovereign had never actually met Ye