The Myriad Calamity Yin Talisman Spear had fused with twenty-one thousand six hundred fragments. After Gao Xian fully refined it with Primordial Purple Qi, its sheer weight increased ten thousandfold.
The Wind and Moon Mirror's designation for the Myriad Calamity Yin Talisman Spear had also changed to high-tier divine rank.
After transcending his tribulation, Gao Xian remained at the Azure Cloud Sect for several decades, chiefly studying the Myriad Calamity Yin Talisman Spear, the soul, and the specific changes in various secret arts.
At his level, it was no longer enough merely to master divine powers and secret arts. He had to probe their underlying principles to the very end.
He had cultivated for far too short a time and taken too many shortcuts. In terms of foundation, he was far inferior to those ninth-rank powerhouses who had cultivated for millions of years.
Fortunately, he had Sister Lan and the Taiji Divine Palace. Through the Taiji Divine Palace's simulations, he could freely conduct all manner of experiments.
Only after advancing to the ninth rank did Gao Xian understand that, while ninth-rank powerhouses possessed all sorts of mighty divine powers and each formed a world unto themselves, their strength still had limits.
No ninth-rank powerhouse could accomplish the Taiji Divine Palace's simulations, which perfectly mirrored every change in reality.
Over those decades, Gao Xian had used Huangquan, a ninth-rank reference, to conduct countless tests. He had essentially already deciphered the secrets of a ninth-rank powerhouse's divine domain.
Ninth-rank powerhouses also had an insurmountable weakness: all their dharma power and divine abilities were constrained by the Creation Golden Book.
Having realized this, Gao Xian was very confident he could handle Shen Zhengwu and the others. Even in the worst-case scenario, if all six ninth-rank cultivators joined forces as one, he might not