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"Ah—!"

Qi Refining Path, Blood Baleful Island, inside a cave abode.

Fang Qing's true body screamed. His entire body was covered in wounds as if scorched by countless suns, threads of golden light weaving through them like insects—

Ever since reaching the Purple Palace realm, especially after obtaining the [Maiden Earth] golden nature, he could not remember how long it had been since he had suffered Dao-transformation injuries this severe.

"Dao Birth Pearl!"

A stream of clear and turbid qi rose and fell, clouds billowing and rosy vapors spreading. Wherever it passed, the wounds upon his Dao body healed in an instant.

"Secret Treasury Domain—Great Transformation Origin—what in the world are they?"

Fang Qing cursed.

With a golden-nature rank upon him, he theoretically already possessed the authority to look directly upon a True Lord.

After all, those immortal attendants, envoys, and servant gods had long taken orders beneath a True Lord. Naturally, they needed to behold their lord's countenance.

Thus, once one's rank reached the golden-nature tier, one could look directly upon a True Lord!

Yet just now, he had merely fixed his gaze upon a glimmer of sunlit radiance, and it had immediately spread to his true body!

Fortunately, the Great Sun Tathagata bore no ill will. Otherwise, Sangji and Su Qing would surely have become two human torches, their flesh and bones reduced to ash!

Even so, through this encounter, Fang Qing had learned much intelligence:

A rank capable of injuring even me has vaguely exceeded the Golden Core tier—

But the Great Sun Tathagata should still be around late Golden Core—roughly comparable to the master of [Wei Yue].

Golden Core perfection!

This was the threshold of the Qi Consumption Path. Once a True Lord attained it, they would immediately draw a combined assault!

[Legs Wood] was so;