The Haotian Treasure Mirror cast divine light over the alms bowl, and everyone's gaze fell as one upon Zong Duona.
That alms bowl had been passed down generation after generation from the founding patriarch of the Western Pole Religion several thousand years ago.
As chief grand elder, Zong Duona naturally had custody of it.
His mastery of the Profound Yin True Water within had also reached a miraculous level. With a mere thought, he could send it flying out to form a vast ocean!
Zong Duona himself wanted to test it and see just what mysteries lay within this legendary supreme treasure of the Central Land's Three Sovereigns, this rarity among cosmic treasures.
First, he willed the Profound Yin True Water to fly out of the alms bowl, but it did not respond at all.
Then he formed hand seals and cast spells, surging his true qi. Yet no matter how hard he tried, the Profound Yin True Water merely churned and swirled inside the bowl, as though raising terrifying waves. Not a single drop could fly out as it usually did.
All twelve cult leaders sucked in cold breaths!
Every one of them knew how formidable Zong Duona's powers were, and how mighty this Profound Yin True Water was.
When they had attacked Lizhu Palace on Moqiu Island together, they had witnessed the eruption of the supervolcano beneath it. Moqiu Island lay upon a vein of the South Sea's earthfire and was itself a supervolcano, with an earthfire primordial embryo that had been gestating beneath it since eternal antiquity.
The one there was simply comparatively "young." Since it lay on a branch vein, its total volume was also smaller. Moreover, its location in the west had allowed it to gain sentience and take form through western dui metal, becoming