Another month passed. Chu Mo sat cross-legged in his cave abode.
The mass of multicolored cloud vapor within his Golden Vault grew ever denser, and the Myriad Lives Profound Unity Furnace had taken on eighty or ninety percent of its final form.
"Spreading the Karmic Reflection Method far and wide really did help. Progress has accelerated considerably. By my estimate, it should take only two or three months to finish forming.
If I could devour the emotions of high-tier living beings, it would be even faster."
Chu Mo slowly opened his eyes, satisfaction surfacing in his gaze.
As for Black Abyss, the Golden Core flood dragon cultivator from the Outer Sea, his actions had indeed matched Xi Hong's predictions.
Ever since receiving word from the aquatic subordinate whose life had been forcibly spared, he had refrained from rash action. He had merely sent several successive groups of shrimp soldiers and crab generals to investigate and verify the news.
Xi Hong had anticipated this and made his arrangements seamless as a heavenly robe. He had even temporarily borrowed the island belonging to the rogue cultivator mentioned in his lie.
One day, deep in the Outer Sea, within a water palace.
Black Abyss abruptly rose to his feet. "So what if it's the Azure Depths School? As long as I don't venture deep into the waters controlled by their Seven Provinces, I can strike quickly, retrieve my wife, and leave. What can they do to me?!"
"My lord, think this through!" The Turtle Chancellor still wanted to dissuade him.
Black Abyss snorted coldly. "My wife is still suffering. How can I keep enduring this?!"
With that, his gaze darkened slightly. Although his father was a Flood Dragon Lord, he had dozens of children, and Black Abyss was merely an unremarkable one among