The blazing sun was like fire, scorching the desolate earth.
A gaunt figure walked barefoot, measuring this stretch of heaven and earth with his legs alone.
The chains wrapped around his arms dragged across the ground with a clattering rattle, the only sound in this place.
Who knew how much time had passed.
The young man seemed somewhat weary. At last, he stopped and raised his head toward the sky.
He stared at the great sun, moistened his dry lips, then reached out and gripped the chains around his arms. Slowly undoing the heavy restraints, he tossed them onto the ground.
The chains stirred up a wisp of dust, then gradually scattered in the wind like grains of sand.
They had originally been meant to bind dragons and tigers. Now that the dragon and tiger had been completely refined, there was naturally no further use for them.
[Fourth-Rank Subduing Dragon and Taming Tiger Grand Scripture: Perfected]
Between green mountains and lofty cliffs, Shen Yi opened his eyes. He seemed still immersed in the deduction from moments ago, the gleam in his pupils flashing past in an instant.
Only after coming back to himself did he look at the panel, where the words Dragon-Tiger Grand Scripture had quietly changed, and let out a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, this path he had stumbled onto by accident had ultimately led somewhere.
A full thousand kalpas of demon lifespan had been poured into it. It was no longer a simple accumulation of tribulation power, but had instead brought earth-shaking changes to the amber-colored bead atop the lotus platform within him.
The originally dense patterns on the fruit position began to rearrange themselves.
They became entirely new characters.
Though Shen Yi had never seen this script before, he could somehow read it aloud: