Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, five days had already gone by.
The stone door of the chamber before the two late Nascent Soul stage Great Cultivators showed no sign of opening. No other cultivators entered or left the entire cave, and everything appeared extremely peaceful.
During those five days, the Supreme Ancestor of Xiangyun Pavilion maintained a calm expression, his eyes slightly closed without revealing the slightest abnormality. He remained seated in meditation, resting, while Elder Bu kept pacing back and forth before the chamber door. Although his expression showed little anxiety, his figure rarely stopped.
As for that five-colored crystal, he was certain in his heart that a mere early Ghost Lord stage cultivator could never have split it apart. Yet he still felt deeply unsettled.
In the several hundred thousand years since Xiangyun Pavilion was founded, it had obtained only that single five-colored crystal. Although no one had been able to identify what the crystal was or smelt it, no one would want to let someone else take away this sole specimen.
Such selfishness was a common failing of humanity. The higher one's cultivation, the more deeply rooted this thought became.
After five days passed, Elder Bu, who had been standing all this time, finally sat cross-legged on the stone floor.
As the Supreme Elder of Xiangyun Pavilion, he was naturally extraordinarily skilled in artifact refinement. Based on his experience, refining a piece of artifact material would absolutely not take this long.
Elder Li had not emerged after five days and five nights. There was only one explanation: even he was unable to split that crystal flashing with five-colored radiance.
Ten days later, Elder Bu had calmly closed his eyes and begun meditating in peace.
Cultivator Yan had shown no abnormality from beginning