The golden pillar of divine light that erupted from the remote mountain cave didn't simply pierce the sky—it shattered it.
Reality itself groaned as the beam of pure cultivation energy tore through dimensional barriers, announcing to every corner of the Lower Realm that something impossible had just occurred.
The Immortal Sect - Heavenly Cloud Peak
Elder Liu Changming was deep in meditation within the sect's most sacred chamber when every alarm formation in the mountain range began shrieking at once.
The ancient cultivator's eyes snapped open, his Late Dao Integration cultivation base trembling as waves of unfamiliar energy washed over him.
"What in the nine hells—" he started, then froze as he felt it. A presence so vast, so overwhelmingly powerful, that his thousand-year-old soul recoiled instinctively.
The chamber doors exploded inward as three more elders burst in, their faces pale with terror and confusion.
