As everyone looked up, the chaotic mass of wind had already begun to show signs of blotting out the sky and sun, its reach expanding to cover more than a dozen miles around Pine Mountain.
"Merely breaking through from the Qi Gathering Realm to the Core Formation Realm has caused an anomaly of this scale!"
"Thinking back to when we broke through, at most there was only a faint glow of rosy clouds."
"Indeed. This ceremony has let us witness the bearing of a heavenly prodigy. The journey was truly not in vain!"
The many Core Formation Cultivators who had come to witness the occasion voiced their amazement one after another. From the anomaly triggered by this breakthrough alone, they understood the vast gulf between themselves and Yang Lingrui.
One could only say that beneath a great reputation, there were no hollow talents. A heavenly prodigy was worthy of the name!
Just then, a wavering dark-brown wind phenomenon began brewing in the area at the center of the wind mass.
"Hmm?"
Hong Yao stared at that spot and muttered, "That wind phenomenon does not look like an auspicious omen."
"Indeed not. It looks more like... a tribulation?"
Wen Zishu took up the thread, his brows likewise drawing together.
For even when he and Hong Yao had broken through into the Core Formation Realm back then, they had merely triggered anomalies. No such tribulation had descended.
"What a chance where blessing and calamity walked hand in hand. I wonder how Ling Rui intends to deal with it."
Hong Yao lowered her gaze toward the stone chamber below, protected by the Gold Ring.
With this Dynasty treasure there, the tribulation could not harm Yang Lingrui in the slightest.
Yet likewise, if he used this external object to block the tribulation, the many