Northern Domain, Yaoguang's 15th Mining Area.
This was one of the most important mining areas of the Yao Guang Sacred Land. A Supreme Elder was stationed there at all times to keep the Great Bandits from causing trouble.
A few days ago, a Pyramid from an unknown era had emerged here. After being reported up the chain, it had attracted considerable attention from the Sacred Land's upper ranks.
The Holy Lord of Yaoguang was coming in person to investigate the Pyramid's mysteries.
"What cultivation level was that old woman? She even managed to get past Supreme Elder Li Yuan and take the Pyramid. Could she be a hidden king who had kept out of sight all these years?"
Weiwei's voice rang clear as a bell. Even in the mining area, where yellow sand filled the sky, her snow-white dress remained spotless.
Just moments ago, an old woman had inexplicably barged into the mining area and seized that extraordinary Pyramid. The Supreme Elder of Yaoguang had attacked, yet hadn't even managed to touch the hem of her clothes.
"Little Martial Granduncle, if even you don't know, how would a mere Saintess like me?"
Yaoguang Holy Maiden Yao Xi was entirely unruffled. She even had the leisure to joke. After all, she was only a Saintess; no one would pin the blame on her.
If the sky fell, the Supreme Elders would hold it up.
"Senior Sister Yao Xi, please behave yourself!"
Weiwei sighed. The alluring woman before her reminded her of a certain rascal who had left without a word.
Yao Xi's relationship with her was rather complicated.
Yao Xi was the eldest disciple of her master, Li Daoming—in other words, a descendant of her senior brother, Yao Guang. By that reckoning, calling her Little Martial Granduncle was perfectly appropriate.
But Yao Xi's master was a Supreme Elder of the same generation as Li Daoming. And since Yao Xi herself was the Saintess of the Yao Guang Sacred Land, it was more fitting for Weiwei to call her Senior Sister.
"All right, no more joking. Junior Sister Weiwei, even though the Pyramid has been lost, we'll still have to wait for the Holy Lord to arrive before we can go explore Holy City."
Yao Xi had none of the usual self-awareness of a Saintess. She was already thinking about which parts of Holy City she should take Weiwei to visit.
In her opinion, there was little hope of recovering the Pyramid. There was no point wasting too much effort over it.
Weiwei, on the other hand, was worth investing her time in. She would do her best to grow closer to her.
When Yao Xi first heard about Fang Yang's exploits, she had gone to the mountain where her grandmaster, Li Daoming, lived, and gotten to know Weiwei.
Unfortunately, Fang Yang, a Candidate Holy Son, had been away on an excursion, so she hadn't been able to meet him.
This time, her duties as a Saintess had left her no choice but to come to the mining area. So she had invited Weiwei to travel with her and strengthen their bond.
The two women didn't have to wait long.
The next day, the Holy Lord of Yaoguang hurried over. He had just torn through the Void and emerged from the Domain Gate when three great powers ambushed him.
The Fourth Great Bandit, Green Flood Dragon King.
The Seventh Great Bandit, Tu Tian.
The Monster Race's great power, Peacock King.
The battle was about to erupt!
The Holy Lord of Yaoguang withstood a strike from all three and decisively used the Primordial Sacred Light Art to manifest 108 Divine Rings. They were like 108 miniature worlds, and he used them to trap Peacock King in a nearby wasteland.
Peacock King didn't resist.
He wasn't a pedant. He didn't mind joining Green Flood Dragon King and Tu Tian in killing the Holy Lord of Yaoguang and giving the entire Eastern Wasteland a little shock.
But there were Supreme Elders in the Yaoguang Mining Area below. Green Flood Dragon King and Tu Tian needed him to help plunder the place and fight them off.
He could kill the Holy Lord of Yaoguang on his own!
"Come on, fight!"
Peacock King looked like no more than a handsome young man, but he had an air of arrogance and dominance in his very bones. He unleashed a killing technique and clashed head-on with the Holy Lord of Yaoguang.
The two fought farther and farther away. Only after they had left the Yaoguang Mining Area behind, avoiding harm to the Yaoguang disciples and the Great Bandits' men, did they unleash their full strength.
The sun and moon lost their light, and the stars trembled!
Mountain after mountain crumbled beneath their blows, and massive craters appeared everywhere...
They were old rivals who had clashed countless times before. Even now, neither could gain the upper hand, and the battle remained locked in a stalemate.
"Brothers, kill!"
Green Flood Dragon King and Tu Tian fought the Immortal Platform Realm elders guarding the mining area, while the men they had brought laughed as they charged down.
This was a rare opportunity, one that came once in a century.
When else could they burn, kill, and plunder to their heart's content? In the past, they could only snatch what they could and run, then flee from place to place in frustration.
Yao Xi and Weiwei looked grave, but neither of them thought of fleeing.
The old woman had taken the Pyramid, but there was nothing they could do about it, so they weren't concerned with it.
Now that they faced a formidable enemy, both women gave it their all, bringing out all sorts of magical artifacts to fend off the Great Bandits' forces.
Yaoguang disciples and the Great Bandits' men fought to the death.
The miners in the mining area fled in every direction.
"How come trouble follows me everywhere?"
Ye Fan felt as if everything had gone wrong.
After escaping from the Taixuan Sect, he had disguised himself as a mortal and joined a mining crew, crossing from the Southern Region to the Northern Domain.
For the past few days, he had been trying to find a way out of the mining area.
He hadn't expected to stumble upon this disaster.
"Danger comes hand in hand with opportunity. With something like this happening in the mining area, the Dao patterns sealing off the surroundings must have shattered. I can use the chance to escape."
Even as he said that, Ye Fan's heart was still pounding.
He was only a minor cultivator of the Other Shore Realm.
In this battlefield, where Dao Palace Realm cultivators were as common as dogs and only those in the Four Extremities Realm could throw their weight around, the slightest misstep could get him caught in the crossfire and killed.
Ye Fan dodged left and right, edging toward the outside in fear. He was only a few hundred meters from escaping the battlefield when—
A youth came riding atop a cauldron from the horizon.
He caught Ye Fan's eye.
"Fang Yang?"
Ye Fan was astonished. He hadn't expected to run into his high school classmate here, of all places.
Even more than Fang Yang, what drew his gaze was the great cauldron of black and yellow beneath the youth's feet.
He couldn't be mistaken.
It was definitely Mother Qi of All Things, also known as Mysterious Yellow Qi. A single strand could crush a mountain ridge.
"What a coincidence."
Fang Yang looked down at the battlefield. After surveying the situation, he didn't flee.
This time was different.
Both sides were fighting in earnest now.
The Yao Guang Sacred Land had suffered heavy casualties and could barely hold the mining area. It was on the verge of defeat.
Fang Yang's thoughts raced. His right hand condensed a Sacred Light Great Palm Seal that came crashing down from the sky.
A bandit failed to dodge in time and was slapped to death.
[Killed a Dao Palace Realm cultivator, Fate Points +10]
"Defending the Sacred Land's honor is my duty!"
Fang Yang no longer hesitated. He went all out!
The Mysterious Yellow Cauldron he had just refined shot forward.
The cauldron had been forged from forty-nine strands of Mysterious Yellow Qi using the Yin Yang Twin Flames. Though it had yet to become his Dao Proving Weapon, it was already comparable to an artifact meticulously refined by an ordinary Four Extremities Realm cultivator.
More terrifying still was the weight inherent in Mysterious Yellow Qi itself. When bandits sent magical artifacts and divine arts crashing toward it, the cauldron was impervious to all attacks. It didn't tremble in the slightest, crushing a whole swath of cultivators to death.
"A treasured cauldron forged from Mysterious Yellow Qi?"
"Who is this?"
"Kill him and take his treasure! Brothers, get him!"
Faced with such a deadly weapon, some were terrified, while others were greedy.
Quite a few cultivators charged at him.
All sorts of secret techniques surged toward Fang Yang like a vast, surging tide.
Some Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators even played dirty. Hidden in the shadows, they silently circled around behind Fang Yang, preparing to attack him at close range and land a vicious blow.
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