He watched the frigid ice hell bloom in the distance.
The ice-blue heavenly waters flowed backward.
They transformed into a magnificent lotus dais, blooming furiously atop Heavenly Moon Mountain.
Jade Linglong stood suspended in the air within the frigid ice hell.
With each step she took, an ice lotus bloomed beneath her feet, setting her off like a divine maiden.
One step, one lotus. The aura of the divine ability formed from her Ice Prison Law shrouded her entire body, and in an instant, the vast heavens and earth became frozen for ten thousand miles.
"Huff."
The cold breath she exhaled became thick mist.
Jade Linglong's black hair gradually faded, turning silver-white.
Jade Lingshu, seated within the carriage, clapped excitedly and cheered.
The activation of her Dao body meant that her elder sister was taking that step into Spirit Transformation.
"Husband, look!"
Jade Lingshu tugged at Meng Zhi beside her and happily pointed toward the thunderbolts weighing ten thousand jun.
Meng Zhi sat cross-legged in the carriage, his expression neither joyful nor sorrowful as his dark-golden eyes gazed into the distance.
He did not say a word.
He was strangely quiet.
Logically speaking, as Jade Linglong's senior brother, he should have been overjoyed by her advancement.
Yet, as he watched Jade Linglong about to successfully overcome her tribulation, a deep displeasure surged within him instead, an indescribably gloomy feeling.
It was as if he was not looking at Jade Linglong, but at his former self.
Without the Soul Banner, Jade Linglong might have entered Spirit Transformation, but she could never have done so so easily or so quickly.
He deeply regretted letting his master take Jade Linglong in. Even though he had once harbored intentions toward her, now there was only profound wariness in his eyes.
Back then, he had