After mastering the Ice Skin Chapter, Luo Hong's meridian resilience increased nearly tenfold. An Internal Spirit Pressure of 220 was still far from his limit; he merely felt a slight pang over the consumption of Blue Spheres.
They were satisfying to use, but difficult to replenish.
Once he began cultivating, time passed swiftly. In the blink of an eye, it was already the fifth day.
On Tianwu Peak, exhaustion had appeared on the faces of the four clan leaders, yet the circular gate suspended in the void above was about to open completely.
"We're about to succeed!"
Zhao Qingling encouraged herself. This time, she had led the effort to open the Five Elements Prison Sealing Formation, intending to release the Demon Beasts within and kill them for their treasures.
This had been her plan ever since she inherited the position of clan leader and learned that Tianwu Peak concealed an array for opening a Secret Realm.
The ancestral teachings had us five Cultivation Families guard this place for generations to prevent Demon Beasts from bringing calamity upon the world. But times have changed. In the Southern Sky Cultivation World, it is nearly impossible to find any powerful Demon Beasts now. There is no longer any need to fear them ravaging the world. Instead, we should consider how to make use of this ancestral treasure.
This was what Zhao Qingling thought. The five families sat upon a mountain of treasure, yet each lived in straitened circumstances because they had always been bound by the ancestral teachings.
Under my leadership, the Zhao Family's new generation, led by Zhao Sisi, has already stopped cultivating the ancestral Thick Earth Technique. The outdated Yellow Springs Blood Refining Method has been shelved as well.
If the Zhao Family was to continue its legacy, it could no