This was a rare marvel that even Golden Core True Persons and Nascent Soul patriarchs regarded as a treasure.
Yet Jiang Xuan had used such a supreme treasure purely to advance his cultivation. Qin Hongshang felt wave after wave of heartache at such extravagance.
However, amid her lament over the waste, her appraisal of Jiang Xuan had no choice but to rise another level.
"He was even willing to take out Mystic Yellow-and-Black Qi... Divine Firmament Sect is treating Jiang Xuan far too well. Are they raising him as a holy son? No, that's not right..."
As one of the pavilion masters of the Sea-Heaven Merchant Alliance, Qin Hongshang's sharpness was far beyond that of ordinary people. Recovering from her initial shock, she quickly gained Insight into the deeper meaning behind Divine Firmament Sect's move—it was not merely because they valued Jiang Xuan.
Divine Firmament Sect was using such precious resources on Jiang Xuan in a manner close to squandering them, all the more to seize an indispensable leading position in this clash between the two domains.
Indeed, exchanges between two great powers should have centered on Nascent Souls and Golden Cores.
But first, interactions at that level had already occurred countless times between the two Heavenly Domains over the past hundreds and thousands of years. Both sides knew each other inside out, leaving little room for variables.
Second, the Divine Firmament Sect disciples represented by Jiang Xuan and the Southeastern Province disciples led by Ji Xuan and Zhuang Yuan were no ordinary Dao Foundation cultivators.
They were the finest young heirs of the two Heavenly Domains, and because of the drastic upheaval in heaven and earth, they could be called the golden generation.
The clash between the disciples of both sides could thus be seen as a rehearsal of