The Two Sages' Essences Return to the Golden Lotus; Karmic Fire and Astral Wind Forge a Divine Edge
The aftershocks of the great victory at Azure Cloud Gorge lingered across southwestern Qingzhou.
The defensive line, once on the verge of collapse, had been pulled back from disaster by the almost miraculous, thunderous strike of Chu Bai, the Prince Who Quells the North.
Yet while the cultivators and aristocratic clans of Heavenly South, Heaven's Apex, Wind Soaring, and the other prefectures dusted off their ceremonial caps in celebration, sending mountains of congratulatory gifts and letters of gratitude to Heavenly Abyss City, Chu Bai had already returned silently to its deepest reaches.
Beneath Heavenly Abyss City, at the core of the supreme-grade spirit veins.
This was the source where the entire district's earth-vein spiritual energy converged, as well as the site of the [Immortal Boundary-Stele]'s parent-and-child core formation.
Stalactite walls naturally formed from deep-blue spirit stones surrounded the chamber. Drops of supreme-grade spirit marrow, so concentrated that it had liquefied, slowly dripped from the pointed stone tips into a clear pool at the formation's center, their crystalline echoes ringing through the hollow silence.
This was a place of utmost purity beneath heaven, untouched by dust, and an ideal sanctuary for secluded cultivation.
Chu Bai sat cross-legged on a ritual platform carved from ten-thousand-year warm jade, his eyes gently closed and his hands joined at his dantian.
Within his body, however, his inward gaze revealed an earth-shaking "storm of laws" unfolding inside his vast, boundless purple abode space.
Exhale! Inhale!
Above the violet-gold ocean of spell power, the ten-petaled [Merit-and-Karma Purple Gold Lotus] hovered silently.
At its heart, however, a mass of "extreme yang flame," crimson as magma, and a mass of "Nine Heavens astral wind," azure as a blade, clashed and tore at one another like two unbridled beasts of the primordial wilderness, held captive by the lotus petals.
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