Old Man Withered Bamboo arrived at the Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain, fury consuming his heart. He was ready to stake everything on dragging Shi Feiyang down with him.
He had already worked out how to destroy the Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain. Once there, he made no attempt to pass through the aurora fire. Instead, he used an evasion art, located the right position from outside, and burrowed beneath the ice.
The spot he chose was precisely where the intersection of the Tropic of Cancer and the meridian projected onto the earth. He descended diagonally for thirty thousand zhang, passing through layer upon layer of solid ice until he reached the Earth's Axis.
Then he followed the Earth's Axis into the core of the Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain, took out a gourd, and threw it straight inside.
Over more than a thousand years, he had accumulated vast quantities of wood element essence qi alongside his cultivation.
Eastern Jia-Yi Wood corresponded to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. Jia wood occupied the Due East Zhen Palace; Zhen represented thunder, and he refined it into Thunderwood Essence.
Yi Wood occupied the Xun Palace in the southeast; Xun represented wind, and he refined it into Windwood Essence.
Many of the magic treasures he refined required these substances as materials, so he had stockpiled a great deal, condensing it all into beads the size of millet grains. The Jia wood beads were dark green, with lightning flashing inside, while the Yi Wood beads were pale green, with what looked like surging currents of wind within.
The two could not be mixed. Otherwise, friction and collisions would instantly give rise to boundless wind and thunder, producing a violent explosion.
Old Man Withered Bamboo had used his wondrous magical power to condense and seal them, storing them