Yan Xinji had fused the Immortal Sect's great arts with the Ancient Dao Lineage, and his accumulation was deep. According to Lin Daoming's successful experience, as long as he refined the Fetal Transformation Essence, he would be able to reach Spirit Transmutation.
But after Body Snatching, he entered seclusion, yet he could never step past that bottleneck, the passage from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transmutation.
After careful research, Yan Xinji discovered that the reason was that the Fetal Transformation Essence within this body was incomplete.
He looked through every trace Kong Feichen had left in the Ascension Cult, and sensed that the remaining Fetal Transformation Essence was inside the Azure Flying Bird cut out by Kong Feichen's Two Parts Divine Technique.
Though he did not know whether Kong Feichen had done it intentionally or unintentionally, if Yan Xinji wanted to climb to a higher floor, he had to find that bird, devour it, and refine it.
This was a project like fishing a needle out of the ocean. When Chen Mobai was in charge of the Immortal Sect, the hidden agents the Ascension Cult had lurking in the various departments of the Three Great Halls had been swept clean.
Yan Xinji could only redevelop new members among the lower ranks while searching for the Azure Flying Bird.
But more than a hundred years passed, and there was still no news at all.
Just when Yan Xinji had despaired over this and was planning to throw caution to the winds and force his way into Spirit Transmutation, he received a mysterious message.
It said the sender knew where the Azure Flying Bird was, and told him to come over for a face-to-face talk.
Yan Xinji was extremely startled and suspicious about this, because the place for the meeting was Goumang Dao