Watching the Battle
A streak of lightning cut across the sky.
Rolling thunder followed close behind, as though someone were tearing through the void at astonishing speed.
Rumble!
Countless bolts of lightning crashed down, followed by a figure descending from the sky.
The floating carriages, horses, and medicinal vapors atop the cliff all seemed startled and shrank back.
"I chased too urgently. I nearly ruined this patch of spirit herbs."
This person was wreathed in lightning and wore a black robe. In the black-robed figure's right arm was a child.
Great Sage Lieyun and He Ping both noticed something: behind her was a pair of folded black wings, glimmering with dark light—a transformation displayed by her physical body.
"This is a woman. What she cultivates is not the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect's Sacred Dharma Qi, but the Great Xiye Kingdom's Thirty-Six Bird Song Formula." Great Sage Lieyun revealed a trace of surprise, then added, "I had thought that, aside from Sacred Dharma Qi, no other orthodox lineages remained on the Western Continent. After all, the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect acts so tyrannically; they should not permit the existence of any lineage outside their own."
"Perhaps the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect truly has such intentions, but simply cannot accomplish them."
He Ping explained, "An orthodox path-entering cultivation method like the Thirty-Six Bird Song Formula seems able to fuse its power into one's bloodline, allowing descendants to retain traces of that power. That is also the secret behind why the Great Xiye Kingdom's imperial clan is known as the Celestial Bloodline."
The Great Xiye Kingdom's imperial clan was known as the Celestial Bloodline because the purer the bloodline, the greater one's potential, and the higher one's chances of attaining the path and breaking through to Manifest Divinity.
"This woman must have obtained