At the same time.
Deep beneath a secluded pavilion in the depths of Extinguish Bear City lay a vast underground space.
At the center of this space stood an enormous stone bed, upon which rested the corpse of a wolf demon whose aura had reached the Golden Core Initial Stage.
Ling Pengyun, whom the Heavenly Fire City Lord had entrusted with assisting in corpse refinement, circled the wolf demon's corpse, stopping from time to time. Using the Divine Sense as Brush technique from the Corpse Refinement Dao's secret arts, he inscribed special black patterns across the corpse.
With every additional black pattern upon the Golden Core wolf demon's corpse, the demonic aura emanating from it grew denser.
At this moment, Ling Pengyun also heard the sounds coming from beyond the city. He paused slightly, then turned to look toward the North City Wall, a peculiar look appearing in his eyes.
"The main battlefield between the Heavenly Star Sect and the Crimson Gold Bear Race is about to erupt here. I fear the Yan Kingdom is about to suffer an invasion from the Demon Race as well."
"I wonder what exactly the Heavenly Star Sect's Backup Plan is."
Waving away these stray thoughts, he once more devoted his full focus to the corpse refinement process, lest the refinement fail.
Because the spirit objects they needed to refine required considerable time, he and a small number of high-level practitioners of the Hundred Arts had already begun working for the Heavenly Star Sect when they received its commissions to refine various spirit objects. They sought to quickly produce high-level Beast Puppets, high-level spirit talismans, high-level medicinal pills, and the like.
Several hours later.
The night grew deeper, and countless lights rose within Extinguish Bear City, illuminating the fifty-thousand-li area surrounding it.
Yet