In the Flood Dragon Race's rear mountain, inside the treasure vault.
Lu Yuan slowly looked around. Only then did he let out a relieved breath.
Ever since arriving in the Northern Netherworld Domain, he had been busy without pause until now. At last, he had gained something reasonably satisfying. So this was what they meant by effort always being rewarded.
This was also his first time facing a so-called Half-Step Heavenly Realm. Its troublesome nature truly surpassed an Extreme Realm Peak by several levels.
Like that earlier Ice Soul Strangulation—without Spirit Power bolstering him, even the Abyss-Sealing Art had not completely neutralized its effects.
As a result, Lu Yuan's physical body had suffered serious damage.
Fortunately, Resurrection's self-healing ability had made up for that shortfall.
One could only say that a Half-Step Heavenly Realm truly lived up to its name.
Besides that, Lu Yuan had discovered something quite important.
He had previously thought that the mysterious ruins in Heavenly Demon Valley were his only route to obtaining a method for advancing into the Heavenly Realm.
After all, sects and factions that possessed such Cultivation Methods were generally overseen by genuine Heavenly Realm experts.
But in truth, the so-called Half-Step Heavenly Realm had many further distinctions within it.
Those outstanding individuals who had cultivated a corner of a Dao Abyss within their Divine Soul Worlds possessed Cultivation Methods that others thirsted after, and the outside world had even bestowed upon them a grand and majestic title.
Heavenly Realm, Dao Scripture.
The name sounded vast and magnificent.
In reality, it merely referred to the wondrous world within an Extreme Realm Peak martial artist's soul that called itself space.
Nurturing a Dao Abyss was called Heaven Opening.
What truly delighted Lu Yuan was that Ao Qianjiang of the Heavenly Flood Dragon Hall was