In the Vast Sea Desert of the western region, the natural maze formation had been broken, and the battle before the Gold Pool raged in full swing.
The Lu Family's war cultivator forces raised an ocean of lightning, clashing and colliding without end against the world of golden light conjured by the many refined-gold sprites, slaughtering one another.
Whenever a refined-gold sprite was slain, a spark of golden flame would fly out and return to the dissolving golden dragon "immortal husk" within the Gold Pool. The refined gold that formed its body would then collapse and scatter; most of it turned into golden qi and dispersed into the surrounding heaven and earth, further increasing the concentration of golden qi, while a small portion condensed into chunks of refined-gold fragments scattered across the ground.
These refined-gold fragments were all exceptional metal-element spiritual materials. In particular, the purity of their metal-element power had nearly reached perfection—a degree that ordinary spirit-gold ores could scarcely attain even through repeated tempering and refinement. Used to forge flying swords and other metal-element magic treasures, they were the finest of materials.
Yet on the battlefield, no one had the leisure to gather these refined-gold spiritual materials. Everyone was fighting and killing with all their strength.
When all was said and done, the victor could seize everything—including the refined-gold spiritual materials presently scattered over the ground.
As for the losers, they might not even be able to preserve their corpses. No matter how much refined-gold spiritual material they collected now, it would be useless.
Whenever a Lu Family war cultivator died, their corpse would be seized directly by some refined-gold sprites and carried to the Gold Pool at the heart of the desert.
A pile of Lu Family cultivators' corpses had already accumulated there, many of them broken