The dim Yellow Springs World.
A Merit Book Page slowly descended.
Its connection with the Yellow Springs World grew stronger and stronger, and the faint light it gave off filled heaven and earth.
—The second contest for divine artifacts was imminent.
"Could we be too late?" Leng Qianchen asked with a furrowed brow.
He looked toward the summit of Iron Encirclement Mountain.
Atop Iron Encirclement Mountain, thirty-six Yellow Springs divine artifacts whirled through the air.
They were giving it everything they had, attacking the dark mist that had gathered without dispersing.
It would take a total of seven thousand two hundred strikes for the Black Dragon to become a Yellow Springs divine artifact and qualify to participate in the contest.
There was no telling whether it would make it in time—
Skeleton Woman suddenly said, "I'll try to buy us some time."
She chanted under her breath, and balls of sickly green flame ignited in her hands.
"Go—"
She hurled the flames out. They streaked across the sky and slammed into the void around the Merit Book Page.
In an instant, the void turned into shattered darkness.
The Merit Book Page sensed what had happened and blazed with even brighter light, doing everything it could to help the void mend every crack.
"It seems we can't interfere with the contest for divine artifacts," Leng Qianchen said.
"I didn't attack the Merit Book Page. I only destroyed the void around it. That doesn't count as breaking the rules," Skeleton Woman said.
Leng Qianchen contemplated this.
With the void shattered, the connection between the Merit Book Page and the Yellow Springs would become slow and difficult.
It wasn't a bad way to buy time.
"...I hope Gu Qingshan makes it in time."
Leng Qianchen sighed and looked toward Iron Encirclement Mountain again.