[Adding the Demon Core you had traded to Jin Feng some time ago, if not for the fact that you were now not only closely connected to the Mirage Dragon Race but also far too close to Shen Xing, he would almost have harbored some improper thoughts.]
[After leaving Xiao Yan's banquet, just as you were about to part ways with the Old Dragon King, he still could not resist giving you a stern reminder: you had to be especially cautious with treasures like these. Before your strength was sufficient, you must never carelessly reveal them before people you did not trust.
If there was another similarly high-value transaction in the future, he told you not to find it troublesome. You could simply send him a message; so long as he was not in the midst of major secluded cultivation, he would certainly come once he received it...]
[In the 897,158th year, aided by Revival Qi, you cultivated the One Qi Separating Spirit Technique far faster than Zhang Zhengyang had described. In just over two hundred years, you had already taken this Secret Art through its initial stages.
Yet at the exact moment you entered the One Qi Separating Spirit Technique, a strange mark inexplicably appeared in the depths of your Divine Soul Sea. The mark was pure white, elegant and sacred. Were others to see it, they would surely believe it to be something of utmost purity.]
[But the instant this mark appeared, an extremely sinister aura flashed past and vanished. It appeared and disappeared with astonishing speed, making it difficult for an ordinary person to notice. Yet your reactions had never been slow. Having suffered many underhanded schemes before, you became wary in an instant.
Before long, countless thoughts arose in your mind. You recalled that this aura