Nanyan Prefecture.
Dao Sect.
Inside an underground chamber, Jiang Yan sat cross-legged with his eyes tightly shut, his mind completely immersed in his own Netherworld Prison.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
On the fourth level of the Netherworld Prison, the phantom images of nine five-clawed True Dragons threw back their heads and roared furiously before flying toward a single point at the center.
As they did so, they wound around and fused with one another, eventually transforming into a golden, glistening longsword.
The longsword stood in the void. Countless dragon-scale rune patterns covered its surface, and amid the tremors of its aura, it faintly exuded a trace of the aura belonging to the supreme overlord among the Ancient Divine Dragons.
"The Nine Dragons Execution Sword Scripture is finally complete. My efforts these past few days were not in vain."
After Jiang Yan had seized Yuanxin Sect's library, he had discovered a page hidden inside a certain low-grade manual. That was how he found this Jie Realm cultivation technique. Then, using the Anomaly Points he had obtained from the battle at the Kunlun Divine Palace, he had finally cultivated the Nine Dragons Execution Sword Scripture to completion.
"With this Nine Dragons Execution Sword, my cultivation has advanced another step. From now on, let it suppress the fourth level of this Netherworld Prison."
Jiang Yan closed his eyes and stabilized his current realm. Then he rose and left his secluded cultivation chamber.
Whoosh!
As the door opened, Jiang Yan appeared, but his entire body suddenly came to a halt.
At that moment, pairs of eyes that seemed almost corporeal turned toward him. An incomparably powerful pressure was born from the void and came surging in, squeezing down on him.
News of the New World had boiled across the entire Three Prefectures. Nearly every Jie