The three-foot whisk in the Daoist nun's hand transformed into slender silver needles, whirling wildly through the air. The bodies of two cultivators lay on the ground, covered in tiny needle holes; they had presumably been killed by this Daoist nun.
Blood at the severed arm of the one-armed, bearded middle-aged man had already crusted into a scab. Even now, his face remained fierce and vicious. Judging by the exhaustion on these cultivators' faces, they had clearly been fighting for quite some time.
Yet the focus of contention between the two groups was a spiritual object growing from the cracks between several boulders in the secluded valley. It stood barely a foot tall and was as thick as a fist, resembling a withered tree at first glance.
"Ultimate Wood Rock Marrow!" Even Chi Yunsang's eyes revealed a trace of burning desire.
Lu Xiaotian's heart jolted even more violently. Ultimate Wood Rock Marrow was an exceedingly rare spiritual treasure born of heaven and earth, neither wood nor rock. Once acquired and refined by a cultivator, it could raise the physical body to the terrifying level of Rank Seven—or even Rank Nine—after a hundred years. Though it took a long time to consume and could only be refined by Golden Core cultivators, a Golden Core cultivator's lifespan was fully sufficient for it. Lu Xiaotian himself was a body cultivator, but ever since entering the Golden Core Realm, his cultivation in body refinement had remained unable to break through. The explosive force of body cultivators in magical combat, as well as their ability to endure and recover from injuries, far surpassed ordinary cultivators. Unfortunately, Ultimate Wood Rock Marrow had one enormous flaw: once consumed, one's physical cultivation could advance no further than Rank Nine.
But for many Golden Core cultivators, a hundred years