Refining the Nine Cauldrons, the Speed Dao, a Surge in Strength!

The front lines did not fall into turmoil because of his departure.

Zhang Shou held the formation, and though he was only at the Half-Step Great Luo realm, with the River Diagram and Luo Scripture upon him, he likewise possessed Great Luo battle power. He firmly suppressed the front between the Fifth Heaven and Fourth Heaven. Even when Bright Venerable's side occasionally tested them, he forcefully drove them back at once.

By now, the World of the Living held the initiative firmly in its grasp. Once those Bright Venerables stepped beyond the range of their own Dao Kingdoms, their strength would fall to Half-Step Great Luo, no longer posing the same threat as before.

Li Beichen moved like lightning and returned to Guan River Estuary in the Twenty-Seventh Heaven before long.

The Peach Forest remained as it had been, its stream babbling softly. Only Yang Jian was still nowhere to be seen; presumably, he had gone to Yang Pass to provide support again.

Looking at that empty Peach Forest, Li Beichen knew that his master was shouldering an even heavier and more distant war in Beyond Heaven. He did not linger. He merely sat cross-legged beneath that old peach tree and took the Nine Cauldrons from the Eastern Emperor Bell.

Over these twenty years, the cauldrons had been continuously steeped in Incense and Fire Prayer Power. The relief carvings of the ancient ancestors upon their surface were no longer merely motionless patterns, but seemed to breathe, as the ancient aura of Humanity flowed slowly within them.

Li Beichen pressed his palm against the wall of a cauldron, closed his eyes, focused his mind, and began the final activation.

Within the Peach Forest, fallen blossoms drifted like rain, while spiritual light flowed soundlessly.

As all the Incense and Fire Prayer Power