After Zhang Yang and Situ Mingyue left Azure Cloud Sect, the others looked toward Azure Cloud Master.
"Senior Brother, we'll give you our Spirit Stones this time too. With so many Spirit Stones, it should be enough for the time being," Ling Yunzi said solemnly.
"No need!" Azure Cloud Master waved his hand. "There were already quite a few Spirit Stones before, and now we have another million. The problem isn't that serious anymore. Besides, didn't that brat Zhang Yang say so? This is only the first day of business—there'll be more to come."
Ling Yunzi and the others thought it over, and that was indeed true. They did not insist further.
"Senior Brother, shall we go now?" Danchენzi asked.
Azure Cloud Master nodded. He arrived at Azure Cloud Peak and led them into another space.
He took out a million Spirit Stones and, with his formidable cultivation, shattered them all at once.
Violent spiritual energy instantly flooded the space.
Azure Cloud Master drew upon the Laws of Heaven and Earth and began refining the violent spiritual energy. Gradually, a pattern appeared before everyone.
Under the violent spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the pattern swiftly expanded.
Only then did they discover that it was actually a map surrounding Azure Cloud Sect.
Meanwhile, outside Azure Cloud Sect, scale-like white clouds appeared between heaven and earth, stretching into the distance.
Unfortunately, it was nighttime, and exceedingly few people witnessed the sight.
Even those who did see it merely assumed it was the clouds rising and falling in the world, paying it no mind at all.
When Azure Cloud Master had finished refining the spiritual energy from the million Spirit Stones, those scale-like white clouds had already enveloped a thousand-li radius around Azure Cloud Sect.
This included part of Cloud Mountain Empire's