Halfway up a mountain in the Wen Kingdom.
Liu Zezheng clutched his head with an arm that had been folded almost as flat as paper, his Sea of Consciousness swimming as though it had suffered a heavy blow.
No, not "as though." He really had suffered a heavy blow, sent flying by a Qi Refining Perfected Person's Divine Ability.
But a Qi Refining Perfected Person's Divine Ability could do little to a Celestial Person. There was only one possibility: the man possessed not just one of those Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures, but at least half the set.
Liu Zezheng's eyes flickered. He shook his paper-thin arm, and flesh regenerated, restoring its former strength.
"How could mere Qi Refining ants deserve Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures? Better to hand them over and help me prove the Dao."
Liu Zezheng licked his lips, his features soft and effeminate.
The method of his Dao Tradition concerned cultivators' Artifact Treasures. It was called the "Myriad Treasures Nod to the True Scripture."
Once he passed the three trials, devouring and refining the Conceptual Images of nine Pre-Heaven True Treasures would let him break through to the celestial mid-stage. Devouring and refining six Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasures would let him reach the late Celestial Person stage, and three Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures would take him to the celestial peak.
Moreover, upon reaching the celestial peak, he could draw the attention of a Golden Position the very next instant and seek to become a True Lord!
And according to a certain True Lord's guidance, the Golden Position indicated by the "Myriad Treasures Nod to the True Scripture" was a manifest, masterless one!
One could say that, with enough Pre-Heaven Artifact Treasures, the "Myriad Treasures Nod to the True Scripture" was a way to ascend to heaven in a single step. It was