With a sweep of his sleeve, a pitch-black object surfaced. Many strange lines were drawn across it, making it look like a tattered map.
Tian Xiaojian lowered his head and studied it with rapt attention, turning his head to survey the surroundings as he looked.
A long while passed.
He drew in a breath, transformed into a black startled rainbow, and shot forward.
On the other side, after Lin Xuan left the Thousand Shadows Sect's main altar, he did not return to Jiuling Mountain. He still had matters to handle, and what he urgently needed to do now was strengthen Baisuan Pavilion's power.
Unlike You Province, in this boundless Cloud Province, if a sect did not have a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, it could hardly establish itself.
He could not possibly stand guard at its side forever, but the girls' cultivation levels were too low. To prevent power from falling into others' hands, Lin Xuan did not dare recruit Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, so puppets became the best choice.
However, looking across all of Cloud Province, there was only one sect capable of refining Nascent Soul Realm puppets.
They were likewise among the Seven Great Powers. Although they did not have as great a reputation as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, they were the most mysterious one.
Mystic Ice Prefecture lay in northern Cloud Province. In terms of area, it was far inferior to the Longnan region Lin Xuan had once visited, and could be counted among the lowest-ranked of Cloud Province's seventy-two prefectures.
However, though its area was not large, this prefecture was extremely prosperous, with famed mountains and great rivers beyond counting. Its mortal population numbered fully in the tens of billions, and the cultivation world was likewise flourishing.
The Heavenly Ingenuity Sect, one of the Seven