The Astonished Truefire Flood Dragon! The [Flood Dragon Pearl] and the Long-Sealed [Soul-Eroding Miasma Insect]

[Sea-Ruins Immortal Island], the merchant association's headquarters, inside Mo Zhaoli's cave abode.

As Lin Changheng examined a jade slip, he sensed something and briefly froze. Then a smile appeared on his face. He knew what that flood dragon's cry meant. "Old friend, you've finally stirred! Nearly half a century has passed. It certainly hasn't been easy-"

He immediately withdrew his attention from the jade slip and directed it toward the silver singularity within his dantian.

At once, clouds gathered high in the sky within the [Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land], surging back and forth as though kneaded by an enormous hand.

Soon, with practiced ease, they formed a gigantic human face three miles across, manifesting high overhead.

It had something of heaven's radiant authority and the stern majesty of a divine manifestation.

Its divine eyes blazed like torches as they looked down upon all living things. An inexplicable pressure immediately descended, silencing everything. Ordinary beasts, fish, and insects all froze beneath it, trembling.

Xiao Hei, Little Qing, Old Chi, and the [Primordial Desolate Demon Bear], Big Gray, who had been looking around curiously after the sudden Flood Dragon's Cry, likewise stiffened.

Although they had long since grown accustomed to their master's "divine manifestations" and fared somewhat better, they still could not escape the pressure infused with the authority of this miniature world.

They crouched where they were, not daring to move.

Lin Changheng had no intention of paying them any attention. He looked straight toward the lower stretch of sky that had been opened up, where a lone piece of pitch-black wood floated, only four inches long and a few finger-widths thick.

It was the [supreme yin soul-nourishing wood].

Now, however, the wood had changed. Specks of red light flickered over its surface like sunset clouds, dazzling and entrancing.

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