The Heavenly Palace was not laid out in halls, towers, and corridors as it appeared from outside.
Instead, spatial Daoist Magic had formed a series of small, separate pocket worlds within it.
Yang Lingrui and the others had arrived atop a steep, towering peak.
A fierce wind howled from the west. A sheer cliff plunged away before them, while rolling black clouds hung overhead. Azure lightning and purple thunder flashed through the clouds, cracking without cease and giving off a terrifying aura that seized the soul.
No matter how they looked at it, this hardly seemed a place of good fortune. It bore more than a passing resemblance to the Central Region's five deadly and five desolate lands.
Dongfang Yingcai sent a Wood Kite into the sky, but the instant it entered the clouds, lightning tore it apart.
"Everyone, be careful! The lightning in those clouds is immensely powerful. Stay alert and be ready to give it your all!"
After receiving the Wood Kite's final report before it shattered, she hurried to warn the others.
But as everyone braced themselves and fixed their eyes on the black clouds, Yang Lingrui caught sight of the lightning flashing among them and fell into a momentary daze.
"Purple thunder..."
A distant memory surged back. Yang Lingrui carefully recalled what he had seen then, and it did look remarkably like this pocket world.
At the same time, Chen Yang sensed more and more divine power being forced into this pocket world, as though squeezed and poured inside.
As that divine power arrived, the thunder and lightning in the black clouds grew ever more violent.
Spurred by the divine power, the stronger purple thunder gradually devoured the azure lightning, and the already savage power of the thunder swelled severalfold.
Nor did it stop growing. Bolstered