The suffocating pressure that accompanied Chen Feng's descent did not merely crack the polished floorstones of the grand audience chamber; it seemed to arrest the natural flow of spiritual qi throughout the entire palace.
The players who had stood at the side and acting like servants stumbled backward, their hands trembling against the hilts of their weapons, their systems flashing frantic notifications of an unmeasurable, supreme entity in their immediate proximity.
Yet, as the dust settled and the golden radiance coiling around Chen Feng's broad shoulders receded into his pores, the heavy, defensive tension in the room did not detonate into violence.
Instead, from behind the ranks of wary Nirvana Rebirth Realm experts, four figures stepped forward into the clear light of the chandeliers.
