The heavens stretched like a dome, daylight slightly dimmed. Stars adorned with heavy frost began to emerge, as though a vast painting had unfurled between heaven and earth.
Within this boundless expanse, an enormous strange bird spread its wings through the air. Its body was cast in white gold, its feathers gleaming. Endless rosy clouds swept across the heavens as if brushing over the bird's back, carrying away a feather that turned into spiritual light filling the sky.
Yet this dazzling sight was merely the chaotic prelude to the firmament.
A swath of radiance tore through the sky. Countless cultivators appeared in the air like shooting stars, their arrival changing in an instant and bringing an overwhelming, majestic spectacle. They came from every major race, with fierce beasts accounting for the greatest number.
They gathered between heaven and earth like a mysterious stellar formation, surrounding the strange bird at its center!
Heaven and Earth Essence Qi was instantly stirred into turmoil. Lightning flashed and thunder roared.
Giant spirits rose from the ground. Some gripped Silent Sword, some manifested scripture wheels, some wore robes white as snow, some wielded rippling golden halberds... Their surging, vast magical power converged across the mountains and rivers in all directions, like endless primordial power amid the stars, their might appearing across the sky.
There were even several lifeforms standing like independent pillars of heaven, each holding up a stretch of sky in their hands. To the strange bird, it was utterly inconceivable!
It kept shaking its head and turning in every direction. The innate suppression brought by those Immortal Dao Realms filled its heart with terror. It had never seen such horrifying lifeforms before. Where had they come from?!
"Pluck its feathers!"
A vast, majestic roar shook heaven and earth. The voice was unmistakable—it was