Above the firmament, dark clouds had gathered at some unknown moment, and thunderbolts danced wildly.
A streak of thunder-bound divine radiance descended into Fang Qing's hand, transforming into an azure-violet flying sword that swept across the void.
His swordsmanship, tempered through the Breath-Nourishing Dao, had long reached a realm where ghosts shrieked and gods wept. With one strike, heaven and earth suddenly brightened, and the earth-element divine radiance filling the sky vanished without a trace.
Thunder overcame earth!
Under the unceasing flow of thunder spiritual power, the earth spiritual power filling the sky likewise rapidly dissipated...
As the Spirit Transformation demonic beast looked at the cauldron, fan, and drum before Fang Qing—three Heaven-Penetrating Numinous Treasures—it grew even more stunned.
Only Spirit Transformation cultivators could refine Heaven-Penetrating Numinous Treasures, and doing so required an enormous expenditure of vital essence and heart's blood. Often, a cultivator could refine only one in an entire lifetime.
Yet now, it had seen a full three of them!
It could not help but sigh. Could it be that human cultivators were all so wealthy? Interesting...
A being comparable to a True Spirit had actually been sealed here.
Fang Qing looked at the chains wrapped around the jade pig but did not act immediately. Instead, he asked, "Jade pig, how long have you been sealed?"
"Impudent! I am the True Spirit Feng Xi!" The jade-bodied pig, bright yellow from head to toe, shouted, "Human cultivators have always harbored ill intent. If you come any closer to this sea, I will kill you!"
"Heh... Sealed for so many years, yet still possessing such spirit. That is rather rare."
Fang Qing looked over the shattered islands below and saw quite a few white bones—some belonging to fish-type demonic beasts, others mixed with those of cultivators.
Those who had risked