After packing up the entire Golden Crow Clan's Ancestral Land, Jiang Yun did not seek out Old Lunatic first. He returned straight to the Source World.
He stood outside the starry sky surrounding the Source World's miniature Dragon Mountains. On a barren asteroid there lay Golden Crow corpses packed so densely they covered its surface.
Jiang Yun's Source World was vast, so when he cleared a battlefield, he habitually scraped it three feet deep.
These Golden Crows counted as rare creatures, and searching the treasures hidden in each of their Five Secret Realms would take too long. He had simply brought them all in wholesale.
Most of the corpses were incomplete, though. Blood and golden feathers lay scattered in layers, like a chicken slaughterhouse in the mortal world.
At the asteroid's highest point lay several relatively intact Golden Crow corpses—the bodies of the clan's Great Saints and Saint Kings.
Though only corpses remained, their golden plumage gleamed beneath the starlight. Its fierce brilliance blazed with seemingly inexhaustible divine power, as if cast from Divine Metal.
Anyone else who saw them would surely struggle to suppress their greed. On Ziwei, Golden Crows had nearly become synonymous with precious medicine, let alone Saint-level Golden Crows.
Jiang Yun had killed so many Golden Crows since arriving on Ziwei that his Source World now held a multitude of their corpses. Standing on this small asteroid, he sensed that something was about to take shape within the Source World.
He had sensed a faint stirring when he wiped out every Golden Crow on Holy Emperor Mountain, but it had not been strong, so he had paid it little mind.
Back on Earth, a Golden Crow had undergone Dao Severing inside Jiang Yun's Source World. Its Dao had merged with the world, allowing the world to