The other had been found over the years by people Hou Ba had helped you seek out. It came from a first-rate faction in the central region, exchanged for a Fourth-ring Dao Grade Treasure Pearl—the "final payment" Li Yixian had settled.
This material had been left behind by a water-aspected Small World. It was a heavenly Dao Origin treasure of that Small World. Later, the owner who obtained it forcibly destroyed that Small World, and thus found this treasure.
The most prevalent law within that Small World had been poison, so this treasure's primary attribute was poison. It was an exceptional material for refining poison formations, even more suitable for such formations than the Dao material provided by Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
For your first attempt, you naturally planned to use the former for practice. If you failed to succeed in one go, you would learn from the lesson and use the latter only once you were confident.
In the 3,325,112th year, after more than a million years of friction between Longevity Palace and Spirit Palace, the matter finally reached its end. What the leaders of both sides had plotted was far grander—and far more extensive—than you had initially guessed.
Jin Wuya and Xuan Wei had not merely wanted to use this conflict to disperse the Resentful Energy that had accumulated between their factions for so long. They had also wanted to use this opportunity to settle certain matters more reasonably.
This struggle, which had lasted for more than a million years, had left everyone throughout the Eastern Domain—from disciples of the two hegemonic factions at the top to Rogue Cultivators and disciples of small factions below—with no mind for cultivation. The only ones who benefited were those "merchants" from elsewhere who sold combat supplies.
The living beings who had acted