Furnace core!
Sifang Zhengdao and Lanzhe Cangyue, with eight eyes between them, silently watched the burning furnace core.
Within the Guan Zizai Realm, this backup furnace core appeared very small, with no other protective barriers around it. Yet its function was beyond doubt.
Possessing the furnace core was equivalent to possessing the Divine Tomb Cult's final lifeline—the sacrificial Dao-protecting barrier of the Heaven-Burning Furnace!
This was the difference between one side waning as the other waxed.
And at this moment, most of the Divine Tomb Cult were still being forced by the Star Refining Lineage to hold fast to the Heaven-Burning Furnace. Once the time came to attack and the Heaven-Burning Furnace changed its target, the resulting change would be enormous—enormous indeed!
What had been a dead-end situation would instantly become a certain death trap.
After the Star Tomb Venerable finished speaking, he held the furnace core swaying in midair and looked earnestly, sincerely at the two Palace Gods. He said nothing more. The document scroll he had produced and this furnace core were already his greatest weapons!
Sifang Zhengdao and Lanzhe Cangyue stared at the furnace core for a very, very long time...
They exchanged one final glance. This glance lasted longer than any before it, as the radiance of those two Primordial Chaos Pupils—one like the sun, the other like a blue star, one hard and one soft—blended together.
Suddenly!
Sifang Zhengdao smiled.
He gave a mute laugh, then stepped forward and took the backup furnace core from the Star Tomb Venerable's hand. At the same time, he said, "Venerable, a pleasant cooperation!"
The moment those final four words struck like a judge's gavel, it meant the dust had settled. The members of the Star Refining Lineage immediately smiled.
"A pleasant cooperation!"
The Star Tomb Venerable handed over