With a raised hand, he pointed. The Bronze Cauldron fragments transformed into countless golden nails, piercing each of the ninety-nine load-bearing pillars of the merchant guild's main building.
The entire Floating Palace collapsed with a thunderous crash, exposing the Su family ancestral shrine buried deep underground.
The seals on the shrine doors turned to ash in the Phoenix True Fire. Lin Taichu stepped inside and saw half a jade pendant enshrined before the ancestral tablets.
He placed Meng Qi's Heart-Protecting Talisman fragment atop it. The jade pendant instantly closed, erupting with brilliant spiritual radiance.
Lin Taichu stood amid the ruins of the Su family ancestral shrine, the Phoenix True Fire around him not yet fully withdrawn. Every flame left a trail of intertwined Xuanhuang Qi in the air.
Dust raised by the Floating Palace's collapse billowed behind him, and through it he could vaguely see the remaining Cultivators of the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild fleeing in panic.
But he knew the true danger had yet to pass—at the moment the Main Egg exploded, he had sensed a terrifying presence dormant in the deepest part of the guild beginning to awaken.
Boom—
An underground secret chamber on the western side of the guild suddenly exploded. A pitch-black light pillar shot into the sky, its surface entwined with dense Golden Runes. Every rune emitted a reverberation like a Bell Chime.
Lin Taichu's pupils contracted sharply. This was the manifestation of a Natal Spiritual Power that appeared only when a cultivator used his own Essence Blood to forge a contract with the laws of heaven and earth. Moreover, the intensity of this aura far surpassed that of any opponent Lin Taichu had faced before.
"You're the brat who destroyed the Guixu Well?"
A deep voice came from within the light pillar. Before the