Fortuitous Opportunities Refine Mystic Yellow Qi

The pangolin seemed to sense the intrusion of Li Shun and his brother. It turned its head and cast them a lingering glance.

Yet in the next instant, it paid them no mind. It turned back and resumed its reverent, solemn bow.

"Has this pangolin become a spirit?" Li Qing exclaimed.

The pangolin before them was as large as a grown man.

Its expressions were strikingly lifelike, making it look rather uncanny.

But the opportunity to break through that Li Shun sensed did not lie with it.

It lay with the three skeletons in the cavern!

Unlike ordinary remains, the three skeletons gave off a crystalline white glow, as though they were warm, lustrous jade.

Stranger still, they sat in exactly the same posture as the phantoms he had seen above the clouds at Three Elders Peak.

Some inexplicable power seemed to hold those hundred-odd dry bones together. Despite the countless years that had passed, they retained the bearing they had possessed in life. From the three skeletons, Li Shun sensed the faintest trace of Mystic Yellow Qi.

"A pity it hasn't fully formed. There's no way to absorb it." After studying them closely, he could not help feeling disappointed.

An opportunity to break through...

Li Shun examined himself. The doors of the Heavenly Gate remained immovable.

As he hesitated, the pangolin finished its bow and suddenly looked at him. With an uncannily human gesture, it invited him forward.

Li Shun paused in thought, then walked slowly up to the three sets of remains. Imitating the pangolin, he clasped his hands, bent at the waist, and bowed with utter sincerity.

In an instant, the scene before him changed.

It was as though he had traveled back through time to the day the Three Elders opened up Shangyu Plain.

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