Eastern Sovereign Taiyi

"Golden Core at last—"

Su stirred his thoughts slightly, and dark shaman light churned across the sky, covering the entire firmament.

Countless voices offering sacrifices and prayers lingered around him, becoming layer upon layer of intricate, magnificent shaman robes in strange colors.

For him, reaching Golden Core meant he could now do many things.

Although a Grand Witch rivaled a Purple Mansion cultivator, performing the deeds of a Golden Core with a Purple Mansion body was still somewhat difficult.

With a Golden Core standing, everything became much easier.

For example—creating a Grotto-Heaven!

For example—slaying a Great Sage!

And, for another example, the few outrageous tricks he had dreamed up.

"The standing of a Purple Mansion Grand Witch actually isn't all that closely connected to heaven and earth—"

"But Golden Core is completely different—even the cultivator becomes part of this world!"

Su smiled faintly and stepped forward.

As though he had crossed a thousand miles, shrinking the earth to an inch, he appeared before a bank of yellow-green plague clouds!

Moo!

A deep, resonant lowing like an ox's bellow came from the plague clouds, and then a beast appeared.

It had white fur, an ox's head, a single eye, and a serpent's tail.

That murky amber eye resembled a setting Great Sun, suddenly casting out myriad rays of light.

This was [Di Earth]—the divine light of Di soil transforming into plague!

Any cultivator below Golden Core who saw it would die immediately.

"A grain of rice dares to shine?"

Su smiled faintly. With a raised hand, he commanded all spirits under heaven and incorporeal ghosts and gods to gnaw at Fei's form, opening countless tiny wounds across the beast's body—

Drip!

A huge drop of yellow-green blood essence struck the ground, instantly rotting three thousand miles of land into a deadly