Qi Refinement Way.
Bloodfiend Island.
"Five years—"
Fang Qing opened his eyes. The radiance of [Winnowing Basket Water] spread across his body, four Divine Abilities intertwining to form a bottomless dark spring.
Countless streaks of watery light slithered around him like flood dragons, while a beam of moonlight descended, making the serpents and pythons seem ready to transform into dragons and soar—
"'Moon in the Well' has reached Divine Ability Perfection—now I am a Perfected Purple Mansion with all four arts at their peak."
"Qiujin is only one step away—"
"But that single step is in truth more than a hundred and eight thousand miles apart—the gap in cultivation is as vast as mountains and seas, with an entire immortal rank realm between us—"
Five years ago, after refining pills for Suqing, he had drifted away, returning the body to Xu Hei and allowing him to enter seclusion and cultivate properly, striving to break through to Divine Ability as soon as possible.
Though the Corpse Yin Sect had lost one Sect Master, it still lingered around Xituo Commandery. Demons and monsters ran rampant throughout Shu Land, and great battles continued without end—
Although this was nothing in the eyes of Great Cultivators above the Purple Mansion realm, it was truly a disaster for lower-level cultivators.
Thus, even though the White Bone Way still occupied half of Xituo Commandery, the Fang Family, White Clan, and Vast Sea Sect had no choice but to open branch lines within the Esoteric Treasury, no matter how unwilling they were.
More recently, Fang Qing had received news that the old Daoist Sanmu had gathered all four arts and was suspected of being pursued by Great True Person Demon Moon.
To hunt down a Great True Person who had gathered all four arts—even if he possessed