The next day, dawn broke, but the sun did not appear. The Dragon Emperor Temple's fleet of airships flew into a massive region of rain clouds within the Shattered Star Sea. The entire expanse of sky swayed beneath wind and rain, murky and dim, with even the sun obscured. Visibility in the air had shrunk to barely a few thousand meters. Under such conditions, the airship fleet slowed once more, crawling forward at just over two hundred kilometers per hour with even greater caution.
There was no sun in the sky, yet Zhang Tie's heart was blazing with sunlight. He was almost humming a tune.
From the time he had killed the Red-Blue Twin Demons until daybreak, Zhang Tie had been quietly refining and absorbing their wind chakras as he traveled with the airship. In just half a night, Zhang Tie had condensed three full scales of chakra. His wind chakra had reached the level of 119 scales. With another 25 scales, he could advance to the Fourth Phantom Transformation and gain another opportunity for enhancement, raising his overall strength by another ten percent.
Zhang Tie had completely absorbed both of the Red-Blue Twin Demons' intact wind chakras the previous night, leaving nothing behind. Having absorbed so many wind elements in one go, he only needed a rough sense of it to know that if he thoroughly refined and absorbed the twins' chakras this time, he could steadily advance beyond the Fifth Phantom Transformation.
What was more, his gains from the twin demons went far beyond that. Zhang Tie still did not know what was inside their several spatial rings; he would have to wait until two days later, on April 1st, Year 3584 of the Wa Emperor Calendar, to find out. But the Invisibility Mirage Pearl on the twins