Yellow Mystery Heaven, Taiyi Hall.
The Nine Provinces Cauldron, sitting quietly atop the high platform, suddenly opened its azure-gold eyes and looked toward the plaza before the hall.
Taiyi Hall itself was sealed off. Without its permission, no one could enter directly.
The plaza, meanwhile, held an enormous teleportation array leading everywhere. All Nine Provinces Command Envoys could come and go freely through the Nine Provinces Heavenly Treasure Divine Talisman.
Gao Xian, dressed in white with a sword at his waist, was standing at the center of the plaza.
The Nine Provinces Cauldron gave Gao Xian a deep look and saw that the foul aura within the Taiji Yin-Yang Sword he carried had been completely purged. It was slightly surprised. In only a hundred years, he had already refined away all the foul aura that had saturated the sword inside and out!
Even before Taiyi Hall, Gao Xian did not dare act presumptuously. He climbed the bluestone steps one at a time, and when he reached the hall's entrance, its great doors boomed open.
Gao Xian performed a distant cupped-hand salute to the Nine Provinces Cauldron before drifting into the hall.
A hundred years of forging the sword in the Nine Yang Fire Cavern had left him exhausted in both body and spirit. Still, after facing the supremely yang and blazing Nine Yang Divine Fire for a hundred years, he had, through the Primordial Heaven Wheel, come to comprehend a method for controlling it.
Over those hundred years of sword forging, he had controlled the Taiji Yin-Yang Sword day and night with his sword intent, gaining some understanding of the sword's core restrictions.
The Taiji Yin-Yang Sword was, after all, an eighth-rank divine sword. Even though foul aura had permeated it inside and out and damaged its very foundation, the