In Hubei's Mount Ba Ling, at the deepest reaches of the underground palace beneath the ancient tomb, a figure arrived outside the stone chamber where sword qi crisscrossed. It was Yan Kuan, who had emerged from seclusion and left Ten Thousand Demons Valley.
His long hair was now streaked black and white, while intense vitality and deathly qi entwined around his body. He had driven the medicinal power of the Life-Devouring Pill to its limit, allowing him to undergo rapid Life-Death Transformations.
But this brought a problem as well. He had to quickly find a suitable environment for transformation and begin another round of it. Only then could he swiftly expend that immense medicinal power while using the pill-dissolution method to replenish everything he had lost.
Every major transformation Yan Kuan underwent required an extraordinary amount of spiritual qi. He had cultivated in the spiritual land of Ten Thousand Demons Valley for eighty-one days, yet a single cycle of Three Flourishes and Three Declines had depleted more than half of its reserves. It could no longer support his next transformation.
However, the three rounds of Life-Death Transformation in Ten Thousand Demons Valley had also greatly advanced Yan Kuan's strength. He had reached the peak of the Dou Emperor realm, with a minor achievement in the Wheel Sea's third transformation. He was comparable to prodigies at the peak of the Four Extremes, and his combat strength was no weaker than that of somewhat inferior Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators.
But the conditions on the Ancestral Star in the End of Dharma era were harsh. Those capable of cultivating to the Dragon Transformation Realm in such an environment were generally leading figures of major factions. There were virtually no weaklings below that standard, so it was basically impossible for Yan Kuan to fight