To forge an Azure Billow Flying Sword's Sword Embryo, one had to draw on Water Fortune.
A sea of clouds was water in the heavens, too.
The sea of clouds beneath Heavenly Pillar Peak was deep and vast enough to forge a Flying Sword's Sword Embryo. The Li Family called this one the "Cloudwatch Sword."
The best time to forge the Cloudwatch Sword was the night of the full moon. A Cloud-Sea Vortex would then appear within the sea of clouds beneath Heavenly Pillar Peak.
That was the finest moment to forge the Sword Embryo.
Ji Yuan had calculated the date before coming here.
He arrived at Heavenly Pillar Peak on the tenth day of the fourth month, with five days remaining until the Cloud-Sea Vortex appeared.
Those five days were just enough for him to still his mind and settle into the state needed to forge the Sword Embryo.
Four days passed in the blink of an eye.
That day, a master and his servant arrived at the summit of Heavenly Pillar Peak. The master was a young man in white robes, strikingly handsome, with a jade pendant shaped like an old turtle hanging from his neck.
He looked no older than eighteen or nineteen, yet his cultivation had already reached Late Qi Refining.
Outside the six great immortal sects, someone like him could be called a dragon or phoenix among men wherever he went.
And the stooped old servant behind him was a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator.
The faint pressure he radiated made the surrounding crowd move aside.
Some who knew better even cupped their hands in greeting.
Everyone wondered which immortal cultivation Aristocratic Clan the two belonged to.
Even across the great cities near Heavenly Pillar Peak, few Lineages could afford a Foundation Establishment Cultivator as