The fires of war beneath Ancestral Spirit Mountain had long since died down.
Inside the Dragon Vein cavern hall of the Divine Radiance Palace.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Wisps of numinous energy surged like a gale, gathering from every direction and pouring toward a figure seated cross-legged beside the Dragon-Locking Well.
A faint radiance bloomed between Hong Yuan's brows. A vortex seemed to emerge there, swallowing all the surging numinous energy.
He sank his awareness slightly, and deep between his brows, a lustrous white body of light abruptly condensed, half flesh and half energy.
The heavenly eye aperture!
With a thought from Hong Yuan, the aperture immediately opened, releasing crystalline rays that spread downward from between his brows and circulated throughout his body.
At the same time, inside his body, the void aperture at his Shanzhong Acupoint flickered with radiance. Two more lustrous white bodies of light emerged at his Life Gate Acupoint and deep within his liver, resonating with the heavenly eye aperture between his brows.
Hong Yuan slowly opened his eyes, a trace of a smile appearing on his face.
Capturing Sun Chujiu this time had truly netted him a fortune.
He had originally planned to capture the man and force him to divulge the Netherworld Sect's methods. He had never expected the rewards to go far beyond that.
Not only had he obtained the Netherworld Sect's methods, but also the orthodox dharma of Divine Farmer Valley and the Sky Soaring Sect.
The Netherworld Sect's orthodox dharma opened a spirit aperture at the Life Gate, known as the "yellow springs aperture."
Divine Farmer Valley opened a spirit aperture in the liver, called the "green wood aperture."
The Sky Soaring Sect opened the "heavenly eye aperture" deep between the brows.
Together with the "void aperture" Hong Yuan had already cultivated, he