The winds rose and clouds churned across the vast desert, while yellow sand filled the sky.
Amid the tower bells' ringing, the Golden Crow sank in the west, and the Jade Soul rose in the east.
In the blink of an eye, another day had passed.
In the distant sky, space suddenly split open, and a White Bone Palace slowly emerged...
The moment the palace entered the desert, the Eternal Night Desert came into view ahead, entirely shrouded beneath a vast sea of tribulation clouds.
Si Hong Qingyan, seated high upon her throne, froze. She had followed the cauldron mark all this way, only to arrive directly at the Eternal Night Desert?
And the tribulation clouds of the Nine Tribulations Deity Transformation... Was Pei Ling undergoing Spirit Transformation in there?
How long had it been since Pei Ling achieved Nascent Soul Formation?
He had already reached Spirit Transformation?
How could that be?!
As she pondered this, a thought suddenly stirred in Si Hong Qingyan's mind. She immediately sensed four powerful, surging auras not far away, each holding the others in check, poised to strike.
At that very moment, a low, hoarse voice sounded by her ear. "Madam Su, the war is still raging. What brings you here?"
Si Hong Qingyan narrowed her eyes slightly. That voice... It belonged to that old Shentu from the Tower of Reincarnation.
He was one of the Tower of Reincarnation's ancestors. When she was still a Saintess, she had once visited the Tower with her elders and met Shentu Weiyan several times. The Tower of Reincarnation had almost entirely mobilized to attack Jiuyi Mountain, leaving only a handful behind at the sect. The one overseeing the overall situation and guarding the rear was Shentu Weiyan.
There was another familiar aura inside the stone tower where