The Eight Trigrams, the Beginning of the Sealed Realm
A whip-shadow tore through the ice mist and lightning, striking straight into the depths where ice and thunder intertwined, a blow from beyond the heavens. Neither the naked eye nor spiritual sense could reach that far.
Another shrill scream rang out. The icy thunder scattered, revealing the Ice Civet Old Demon inside, its flesh and blood a mangled mess. Its Primordial Spirit had also been shredded by the crisscrossing ice and thunder, vanishing into nothingness.
A gray-robed old man with a long beard and square face strode through the air, holding a three-foot gray whip.
"Haha, I took the liberty of intervening. I hope Pill King Lu won't take offense."
"You jest, fellow Daoist. If you hadn't stepped in, that junior might have escaped." The severed arm studied the long-bearded old man. "May I ask your name?"
"My surname is Gou, and my given name is Gan." The old man stroked his beard and smiled. "Pill King Lu, you've come here this time, most likely for the Boundary Heaven Stone."
"Fellow Daoist Gou is right. I've heard the Boundary Heaven Stone has extraordinary uses, so naturally I want to see it for myself."
The severed arm made no attempt to deny it, while inwardly weighing the origins of this man called Gou Gan. Even with humans, demons, ghosts, and devils living alongside one another in this realm, the number of Tribulation Transcendence and Mahayana Realm cultivators was exceedingly small. He had never seen or heard of this Gou Gan before, yet the man had suddenly appeared in the Chaotic Demon Domain and made his way to the Ice-Thunder Wasteland. Reaching this place meant he must know a great deal about the Boundary Heaven Stone.
"The Boundary Heaven Stone is a rare