Desecration

With his Dharma Eye open, Venerable Taihua had already seen through everything.

After forcing out Tu Shan Jun's true body, he was even more astonished to discover how powerful this artifact spirit's body was.

It far surpassed an ordinary peak Nascent Soul cultivator.

Even at his own cultivation level when he had been at the peak of Nascent Soul, he might not necessarily have been a match for this artifact spirit—let alone after seeing Tu Shan Jun's true body and the aura displayed by the spiritual opportunity swirling around him.

He was every inch the image of a great sect's favored prodigy.

The only regrettable thing was that the treasure shaped like a soul banner emitted spiritual opportunity only at the level of a Dao soldier.

It was said that many treasures that gave birth to artifact spirits were themselves extraordinarily powerful existences.

He had never come into contact with one before, so he did not know the specifics. He had only seen records concerning such treasures in the sect's ancient texts.

He had once seen a treasure with an artifact spirit appear in the Yuanyang Domain. The spiritual pressure it exuded had shaken the heart and soul, while its artifact spirit possessed peerless cultivation. Even a late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator like him had been left in awe. In the end, the one who obtained that artifact-spirit treasure had been a Void Refinement Saint, and a disciple of a super sect from Central Province at that. That person was called...

Venerable Taihua shook his head slightly. There was no use talking about such things.

Back then, his cultivation had been insufficient, and he had been unable to compete for an artifact-spirit treasure. Though he had been a genius of the Taiyi Ascension Sect, compared to those favored prodigies, the gap