"More or less. It was time."
Sensing his power continuously expanding, Tongtian rose to his feet. He left behind an incarnation in the Dao Palace to throw people off the scent, while his true body first headed to Penglai, using the slight connection born from the Pure Yang Token to strengthen his link with Penglai Island.
At the same time, Tongtian used the treasure banner, which had already brought most of the magical restrictions under his control, along with the Dao qi within it, to establish contact with the Dao-realm immortals on Penglai Island.
Threads of Highest Purity qi flowed incessantly from the treasure banner into Penglai Island. With the assistance of the Dao-realm cultivators, they merged into the formations that had long been arranged throughout the island.
Thus, Tongtian used the convenience of that connection to assimilate Penglai Island while refining the treasure banner in his hand.
Yu Chen, who was in the underworld, likewise received support. His clash with the Blood Sea Evil God briefly tilted in his favor. Yet before long, the evil god in the form of a youth evened the balance again and returned to its original state, revealing that it had been holding back all along.
The evil god even had the leisure to chat with Yu Chen. "Interesting. Where are you borrowing power from, to keep pushing your cultivation forward? Kunlun, or Penglai?"
Yu Chen did not answer, instead asking, "Why not take a guess, Fellow Daoist?"
"Penglai, then!"
After thinking for a moment, the evil god answered, "Though you are unusual, you should not be able to violate Kunlun's magical restrictions. Penglai, on the other hand, seems impossible—but the cultivators residing on the Three Immortal Isles are more willing than anyone to let go when it comes to the inheritance of the