One fallen leaf foretold autumn, and frost drew near (two in one)

Cold Toad Divine Palace, Great True Person Jie Shuang, Zheng Yubing!

Before her figure emerged from her flight light, Liu Dongqing instantly recognized her from the familiar aura of her body and soul's essence.

And in that instant.

Liu Dongqing's brows rose slightly.

Of late, this minute change in his expression had appeared only when he encountered prodigies endowed with inconceivable talent.

Today, Zheng Yubing gave Liu Dongqing that same sense of astonishment.

Though they had been apart for a long time, Zheng Yubing remained shackled at the pinnacle of the Golden Core realm, still the Great True Person she had been before.

Yet the aura of her Dao and arts had undergone a complete transformation.

Back then, relying on the Yellow Spring Water Liu Dongqing had given her, Zheng Yubing had initially changed only the source of Dharma power for her Nether Death Divine Sense.

She had merely crossed the threshold of the Dao of Yellow Springs and nether death.

But now.

After lingering far longer in the Turbid Netherworld.

The aura of Zheng Yubing's Dao and arts was harmonious and perfectly balanced, utterly natural, with the profundity of Yellow Springs and nether death running through every part.

After all.

However closely Cold Toad Divine Palace's Nether Death Divine Sense resembled the profundity of Yellow Springs and nether death, the sect's old Dao and arts had still been founded upon absorbing the soul-blood of primordial cold toads.

Changing only the source of Dharma power was bound to leave some discord; it could never achieve absolute perfection.

But now.

Clearly, Zheng Yubing had taken the nether death qi of the Forget River Yellow Springs as her foundation and worked backward through the established methods of every realm she had cultivated, removing, adjusting, and replacing everything discordant.

With her Dao and