Harvest Beyond Measure! Opportunity for Breakthrough

After confirming Pei Hong's true location,

Jianglingzi no longer held back and began working over Ghost King Li.

Just as he had dealt with Three-Flames Ancient Venerable, Jianglingzi directly used a devilish technique to extract Ghost King Li's soul and marrow, refining him into a "human pill" before swallowing it.

In an instant, his spiritual pressure surged by an entire tier, reaching the peak of mid-Spirit Transformation, just one step away from late Spirit Transformation.

He had become the highest-cultivated among all the cultivators present.

Yet Jianglingzi was not satisfied with this level of cultivation. Having digested Ghost King Li's cultivation, he furrowed his brows slightly.

It was much as the Nethergod soul fragment had guessed.

He did indeed possess a means of tracking Pei Hong's whereabouts, but that divine ability involved his "Void Refinement domain." Moreover, its range was not the miniature domain he had deployed while fighting Three-Flames Ancient Venerable and Ghost King Li. This domain covered at least several hundred li.

Therefore, the mid-Spirit Transformation realm was still far from enough to support him in casting his own "Void Refinement domain." At the very least, he needed to reach... late Spirit Transformation.

But at present, there was no second Spirit Transformation cultivator for him to refine into a devilish human pill.

"Rest and recuperate first. We can deal with Pei Hong and Qi Yaoxian later..."

After pondering for a moment, Jianglingzi gave the order to retreat.

However, just as the cultivators withdrew once more to Jianglingzi's cave abode in the far north, where he had resided before ascending,

Wei Tu discovered that not long after Jianglingzi and Golden Silkworm Snow Lady returned to the cave abode, they abruptly departed through a secret teleportation array within it.

"These spatial fluctuations from the teleportation array... lead to the eastern