It raised the Treasure Mace, its hair and beard bristling with fury. Its colossal body, towering a hundred zhang like a mountain, seemed poised to crush down on Ji Xiu...
And yet—
"Awaken now!"
A solemn, dignified female voice suddenly echoed through the cloudy Celestial Universe.
Afterward, a series of CRACKS echoed as visible fissures began to appear ceaselessly within the 'scene'...
The Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General grew even more enraged:
"Who is interfering?"
It raised its Treasure Mace, intending to strike the sliver of Ji Xiu's Divine Soul it had forcibly seized through a medium, but... Ji Xiu's manifested form was already growing transparent, gradually fading away.
Immediately after.
A slender phoenix eye opened above the crumbling Celestial Universe.
The eye was cold and indifferent, fixed solely upon the hundred-zhang-tall Venerable Deity. After a long moment, its gaze filled with contempt:
