In the blink of an eye, Jin Yi had reattached his severed palm, a cruel smile on his face. "You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit. To think you dared act so insolently before this venerable one. That little exchange just now was only a warm-up. Now I'll let you see the gap between the Dongxuan Realm and the Lihe Realm."
His voice was icy beyond compare. Then, with a one-handed incantation gesture, dazzling golden light wrapped around his body, swallowing his entire figure completely. The golden mist churned as if alive, and from within it erupted a streak of demon qi that shot into the heavens.
"Croak, croak."
A sound like the clamoring of a toad entered their ears, and that demon qi also began to change, swirling and dancing as it sucked in the surrounding heaven-and-earth origin qi. It no longer looked like a dead thing, but seemed to possess life as well.
"True Spirit qi."
Lin Xuan murmured to himself. The Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art had mentioned that if one cultivated it to an exceedingly profound level, one could use the great divine abilities of the King of Hundred Birds. However, there was one prerequisite: temporarily transforming all the magic power in one's body into True Spirit qi.
Unfortunately, the cultivation art in Lin Xuan's hands was incomplete. Back then, Mystic Phoenix Fairy had only been at the Lihe Realm, and the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art she created had only nine layers. As for the description of True Spirit qi, it was merely conjecture, though the general direction should not be wrong.
Of course, the Jin Yi before him, even after becoming a Dongxuan Realm immortal cultivator, was still far, far inferior compared with a True Spirit. This so-called True Spirit qi was