Long, long ago, Liu Dongqing had already stopped thinking Hechu worth a glance. Tribulation energy clouded the old Daoist's mind, and his natural gifts were dregs.
But.
Setting the man himself aside.
The cultivation resources left behind by a genuine Spirit Transformation Dao Lord, whole and at full strength after his advancement, still made Liu Dongqing's heart stir!
Now.
Liu Dongqing stared intently at the four torrents flying toward him.
The first to dissolve beneath his gaze was the torrent containing the most Elixir Fruits.
The moment the natural power of heaven and earth washed over it, that power seemed to stir some resonance within the Elixir Fruits.
In an instant.
Their outward forms vanished like smoke.
Radiance blazed. Strands of source power appeared before Liu Dongqing—power transformed by the Bloodthirsty Medicinal Vine, naturally imbued with the aura of his Blessed-Land Domain.
This was the source power he had forcibly refined by using the Bloodthirsty Medicinal Vine to squeeze the remaining Dao resonance from Hechu's Great Accomplishment Spirit Treasure and the natural foundations from his Blessed-Land Domain.
A Nascent Soul Dao Lord whose domain had once spanned twelve hundred li could supply only a limited amount of source power.
A Spirit Transformation Dao Lord was different.
Now.
Liu Dongqing's Heavenly River Divine Sense descended over the torrent.
In a flash.
He made a preliminary estimate of the Elixir Fruits cracking and dissolving one after another, and of the strands of source power emerging with the aura of primal nature.
"Some four or five hundred thousand!"
"Back when I was at the Nascent Soul realm, that would have been enough to nurture all my spirit treasures to Great Accomplishment in one go, with some left over!"
"But."
"A few days ago, when Wanqing performed the Zhaijiao Ritual, I saw hundreds of