At this moment, Heaven and Earth trembled!
Below the Celestial Mansion's Ninth Layer, the earth shattered, rivers flowed in reverse, and a face—impossibly clear and bizarre to the extreme—materialized in the sky above.
It was a face with no features.
All one could see was a sheet of skin, yet a boundless spiritual perception roared from within it, transforming into a voice only Perfected Lords could hear as it echoed out:
"Return!"
RUMBLE!
The voice spread throughout the Celestial Mansion, inside and out, almost instantly reaching the Celestial Mansion's Eighth Layer. In that moment, several towering figures that reached from the earth to the sky materialized.
