After Shi Ji Buddha chased Old Gray and vanished into the vast gray clouds, Qingyi flashed once more in the depths of the shattered Gray Spirit Clan territory, revealing Li Qingyun's figure.
Since Shi Ji Buddha had not pursued him, he naturally stayed behind. Something within the Gray Spirit Clan territory was faintly drawing the Cosmic Fire Furnace.
This place was also the equivalent of an ancient field-domain relic. It was merely occupied by the Gray Spirit Clan, so that over countless ages, many had forgotten its true nature.
Following that barely perceptible pull, Li Qingyun arrived before a pitch-black cave. That "thing" should be inside.
With the Exquisite Pagoda suspended above his head and the Temple Lamp Shadow shrouding his body, he had nothing to fear. Calm-faced, he walked into the ancient cave's inky darkness.
The cave twisted and wound about like a distorted, sinuous heavenly serpent.
Nothing unexpected happened along the way. Li Qingyun soon reached the depths of Heavenly Serpent Cave, and the Cosmic Fire Furnace in his hand had already begun to hum and tremble.
The Gray Spirit Clan had erected an ancient, ominous bronze wall here, barring whatever lay behind it.
"Open!"
Li Qingyun swept it with his divine sense and easily broke the seals on the bronze wall.
The Gray Spirit Clan's skill at sealing was far too crude!
Before a grandmaster of artifact refinement, formations, and seals like him, it was child's play.
The bronze wall sank into the cave's stone face, revealing the space beyond. The depths of the cavern had been carved like an ancient incense burner, its outline almost identical to that of the Cosmic Fire Furnace!
Amid gray darkness so dense it could not be dissolved stood an enormous, tree-like ancient incense in the shape of a heavenly serpent.