Ten Years of Change, Creating the Divine Technique "Five Elements Rotation Divine Light Technique"

Temple Keeper Hall.

Li Youming slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze was calm.

But beneath that calm lay an air of authority.

"Ten years..."

He rose to his feet. Dressed in black temple keeper robes and wearing a temple keeper's crown, he clasped his hands behind his back and walked out of the great hall.

Though ten years had passed,

he showed not the slightest sign of age.

Compared with ten years ago, he even looked considerably younger.

After all, three years ago, his cultivation had already advanced from the Sixth Rank to the Seventh Rank.

And now, three years later, he had advanced further still, reaching the Seventh Rank Mid Qi Refiner realm!

Inside the great hall,

the Nether-Illumination Black-Eyed Beast, its body black as ink and covered in bristling scales, opened its eyes. Its dignified, faintly fearsome head turned to watch Li Youming's retreating figure.

Its aura was already utterly different from what it had been eight years ago.

It, too, had reached the Seventh Rank!

Its eyes held an eerie, fathomless gleam. A single glance was enough to make anyone tremble with fear.

Seeing that Li Youming had not called for it,

it closed its eyes again and sank into slumber.

The solemn, gloomy aura it gave off seemed to weigh down the entire Temple Keeper Hall.

"Greetings, Temple Keeper!"

Ten Divine Guards stood watch before the Temple Keeper Hall. Clad in white armor and carrying war halberds, they knelt on one knee and spoke in deep voices.

All ten Divine Guards were at the Fifth Rank, the Grotto-Heaven Realm.

They were soldiers of the Divine Guard Army, one of the two armies belonging to the Divine Temple.

The Divine Guard Army had three thousand soldiers.

Among them were five hundred Grand Martial Masters at the Fifth