This Forbidden Sea had existed for countless millennia. The golden motes within its waters were the accumulated essence left behind by generations of fallen Dragon Clan members.
Under the frenzied devouring of the Saint Thief Great Supernatural Power, vast amounts of golden motes were drawn out and continuously poured into the three hundred and sixty-five Divine Acupoints within his body.
At the same time, Wang Xuan swallowed all the death qi that Dead City had accumulated over countless millennia.
That death qi was cold and decayed. Ordinary cultivators would die upon touching it, but before the Sage Thief, all energy could be transformed into potential.
The death qi was drawn into his body and refined by his talent, its sinister elements stripped away until only the purest source power remained.
After an unknown amount of time, the golden motes in the once boundless golden Forbidden Sea were completely exhausted, and its surface changed from dazzling gold to an ordinary deep blue.
The undead creatures within Dead City had long since been obliterated beneath the dragon claws. The remaining death qi was like water without a source and was devoured clean.
Transformed by the Sage Thief, this power caused Wang Xuan's potential to surge, directly reaching the Ancestor God stage.
His potential had previously remained at the Immortality Realm. There had been a massive gulf between it and the Ancestor God Realm, leaving him practically at the end of his rope.
But now, the accumulations of the Forbidden Sea and Dead City had forcefully filled that gulf.
In the eyes of any cultivator practicing the Heavenly Stele Profound Art, leaping from Immortality Realm potential to the Ancestor God stage in a single step was no different from ascending to heaven.
The Heavenly Stele Profound Art was founded on potential, and accumulating