At night, in the Righteous Alliance's Supreme Council Undersea City.
Moonlight poured down like a silken ribbon, its silver radiance spilling across the world.
A full moon hung high in the heavens, bright and pure, translucent as a jade disk. Stars dotted the sky, flickering in and out.
Though it lay beneath the sea, the nightscape was no different from the one aboveground.
And this was more than a mere illusion. A ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator could draw down starlight directly to practice the third stage of the Harvesting and Refining Method.
The young qilin stars, young dragon stars, and other talent-training planets in the starry sky used this same method.
After all, the sun essence and moon brilliance needed for the three stages of the Harvesting and Refining Method referred specifically to the sun and moon of the Central Continent. The essence of stars in the cosmos had no such effect.
The outer walls of Speaker's High Tower glowed with intricate patterns of dark gold, growing ever more mysterious beneath the moonlight.
As the grandest and most enigmatic building in the entire Supreme Council Undersea City, it was a dream of every Righteous Alliance member to live there someday.
Many outsiders had tried to sneak inside and catch a glimpse of its secrets. But aside from the Ancestor of the Demonic Path, hailed as "the Great Profound Realm's biggest shit-stirrer," who had managed it once, no one had ever succeeded.
They said that afterward, the cultivator who had coined the nickname was abducted by the Ancestor of the Demonic Path and given a "great fortune."
The Righteous Alliance didn't make much of an issue of it with the Ancestor of the Demonic Path, either.
Never mind whether they could win a fight against him. If the Ancestor of the