Fighting the power
Unknowingly, a strand of Chaos Qi within Hao Xuan's meridian slowly slipped out and started circulating on its own. It was reacting to something, calling for something in this space.
The lightning bolts that had created a tightly interwoven net loosened just a little, just enough for a handful of lightning bolts to escape in another direction, not towards Hao Xuan but somewhere much further away.
But while Hao Xuan's mind was in that stupor following the movements of the escaped lightning, he missed something else, something much more significant.
As soon as the 'lightning net' loosened within the sea of clouds, a colossal avian wing shot forward trying to break through that small gap.
It was difficult to tell exactly how big it actually was since the sea of clouds was so high up that even light barely reached the surface, but even from a rough estimate it should have been several tens of thousands of meters long.