Diverting Disaster Eastward

A swift river suddenly exploded, sending water splashing in all directions.

A Six-Headed Giant Python, black all over, flew out from the riverbed. Its body was drenched in blood, and it looked gravely weakened.

"Where do you think you're running?"

A cold, emotionless male voice came from the riverbed.

No sooner had the words fallen than an enormous cyan sword light swept out from the riverbed. It flashed across the Six-Headed Giant Python's body and cleaved it in two.

A miniature Nine-Headed Python flew out of its body. Before it could get far, a palm-sized Cyan Gourd appeared out of nowhere, spraying a cyan glow that enveloped the miniature python and drew it inside.

A Cyan Rainbow flew out of the riverbed, revealing a tall green-shirted man with an exquisite Cyan Sword Case strapped to his back.

With a one-handed gesture, the green-shirted man drew the Cyan Gourd into his sleeve.

"I wonder where Junior Sister Bai is. I hope she doesn't run into a Mahayana cultivator from the Azure Xuan Clan."

The green-shirted man muttered to himself.

Gan Qingzi, the Great Elder of the Dry Azure Sect, an Early Mahayana cultivator.

He put away the giant python's corpse, transformed into a Cyan Escape Light, and departed.

At the foot of a steep mountain peak stood a cave over thirty meters wide. Deafening explosions rang out from within, making the entire peak shake violently.

After a while, the explosions ceased.

At the end of the cave was a cavern about an acre in size. Soul-Shattering Fairy, Treasure Seeker, and Celestial Sound Fairy stood before a sheer stone wall, facing a Stone Chamber over three hundred meters wide.

In the center of the Stone Chamber lay a humanoid skeleton draped in a yellow dress. Its left skeletal hand was missing,