It was a mass of purple mist, but the vicious beast was not within it.
The purple mist churned, wisps of it swept up and scattered by the dust-filled hurricane around it. Suspended within the mist was a solid, pale-cyan sphere flickering with a lustrous glow.
The sphere was not large, only the size of a child's head, but it was perfectly round, as though polished and ground smooth.
"Heaven and Earth Essence! That's Heaven and Earth Essence!" Qin Fengming cried out involuntarily when he suddenly saw the sphere within the purple mist.
At the same time as the words left his mouth, his eyes flew wide, and he stared unblinkingly at the mass of purple mist.
Amid Qin Fengming's cry, a tall figure suddenly appeared out of thin air.
A body abruptly materialized on the spot. Venerable Jie Mie and Qingyu both changed expression dramatically. As their incantations raced through their bodies, their gazes swiftly turned toward the tall figure.
Jun Yan was already vastly different from when Qin Fengming had first seen him. His appearance had changed greatly, and his frame had grown taller. The hair covering his body had vanished, revealing lean, powerful, blue-black skin. A large piece of vicious-beast hide wrapped around his waist, while the muscles on his arms bulged like thick green vines coiled around them. His face was no longer that of a wrinkled old woman; it was full and muscular, radiating savage ferocity.
Jun Yan had concealed his distinctive aura. Unless one was extremely familiar with the aura of a Mountain Demon, it would be impossible to identify his exact identity at a glance.
However, from Jun Yan's towering body and stern, ruthless features, one could still tell that he was a terrifyingly powerful existence—highly unusual.
When Jun Yan appeared, he paid