Yulian sensed Wang Ping's change, and the Water Spirit runes across the scales on her body immediately glimmered with streaks of azure light, as though she were ready to fight at any moment.
Wang Ping, however, was in no hurry. He extended his Left Hand to deduce the situation while using the Heaven Connecting Talisman to distort the firebird's consciousness, instantly leaving the firebird, which had been about to attack him, completely dazed.
Several breaths later, he manifested a Golden Armored Soldier and placed Jia Talismans on both himself and the Golden Armored Soldier. Then, they rose into the air one after the other. Before entering the passage, Wang Ping launched two Transfer Talismans into the void.
Personally feeling the passage's increasingly powerful repulsive force, Wang Ping could not help accelerating. The instant he crossed the fog-shrouded area and arrived at the Water Palace, the passage's repulsive force suddenly increased severalfold.
It still posed no threat to Wang Ping, but the Puppet could no longer endure it. As Wang Ping reached out to steady the Puppet, he looked beyond the passage.
Outside, beneath the shroud of mist, rain poured from the sky. A biting cold wind swept through the rain, and together with the dense Water Spirit Qi, it gave the downpour destructive power as obvious as the Water Droplet Pierces Stone technique used by Water cultivators of Linshui Prefecture. It seeped in through every crack and crevice.
Beneath the hazy mist formed by the rain, an island covered in swamp forests could be seen. At the island's center lay a deep pool. When Wang Ping probed it with his Primordial Spirit Consciousness, he sensed that the Water Spirit Qi within had already become tangible.
Wang Ping took a refined thousand-year Spirit Wood from his Storage Bag and tossed it