Many cultivators had entered Qingyun Immortal Mansion, but of those present, Kunming and Wujie were the strongest.
Both had gone to great lengths to channel their power into the Mansion Seal.
Now Su Shi'er had forced that power out with the Heaven and Earth Furnace's green light, even at the cost of worsening the damage to his soul.
"Good! Very good!"
Kunming narrowed his eyes and swept a swift glance over Su Shi'er.
The Demonic Essence within him surged to its peak.
Behind him, the Heaven-Swallowing Scroll blazed with light, and an ancient Kunpeng, half real and half illusion, spread its wings and soared skyward.
The Kunpeng unfurled both wings.
Its vast spatial power warped Kong Yue's Five-Colored Divine Light for an instant.
Kunming seized the opening.
With one step, he appeared directly before the Core Mansion Seal.
He curled the fingers of his right hand into a claw, forced it through the Immortal Lord's Remnant Restriction, and reached for the seal.
Provoked, the Immortal Lord's Remnant Restriction flashed green like a blade, carving wounds deep enough to expose bone along Kunming's arm.
Blood sprayed, but Kunming seemed not to notice.
His gaze remained fixed on the Core Mansion Seal, now within arm's reach.
As long as he got the seal into his hand, he could find a way to take it out of Qingyun Immortal Mansion first, even if he could not fully refine it in a short time.
But just as his hand came within three inches of the seal,
an exceedingly faint Spiritual Sense Imprint surfaced on it.
The imprint was weak.
Yet the aura within it came from the same source as Su Shi'er's.
The instant the Spiritual Sense Imprint appeared,
the whole Qingyun Immortal Mansion trembled.
Within the Reverse-Flow Formation Su Shi'er had set up