Sudden Change

As the golden wick, like a swimming dragon, silently drifted through the air, rings of visible, solidified ripples of law spread outward, soundlessly falling over the several yards around Zhang Tie's seated form.

Under this force, even the air seemed to grow viscous. Light twisted, and even the flow of time appeared to have quietly changed at this moment.

This glazed treasure lamp, transparent throughout and flowing with a molten-gold radiance, was precisely the item Zhang Tie had previously obtained from the Gold Clan elder's storage ring.

Only after searching the elder's soul and refining it did he truly learn of the item's astonishing origins—it was the Golden Light Glazed Lamp, the Gold Clan's clan-protecting supreme treasure passed down for ten thousand years!

This lamp possessed endless wondrous uses, capable of both offense and defense.

Its attacks were strange and tyrannical enough to strike fear into one's heart.

Once someone was illuminated and enveloped by its seemingly gentle golden light, that person's lifespan would rapidly drain away like floodwaters through an opened sluice gate, irreversibly.

Even a mighty Integration stage cultivator would lose nearly a thousand years of lifespan for nothing if they remained beneath its light for the time it took an incense stick to burn!

Such a method of damaging others' lifespans and stealing their fortune was already an act against heaven itself.

Yet its defensive abilities were even more formidable than its attacks.

Once activated, it could form a pale golden light curtain spanning several miles. Within it, aside from those permitted by the lamp's owner, any intruder, regardless of cultivation level, would unconsciously become sluggish and slow, as though trapped in a bottomless mire. Every movement would be shackled by invisible restraints, and forty to fifty percent of their divine abilities would be suppressed, leaving them