Above a range of gray, mist-shrouded mountains...
With a whoosh!, a streak of blue-and-red escape light flashed past, vanishing into the air after a few flickers...
There!
Within the blue-and-red escape light was none other than Wang Yan!
However,
The light surging around Wang Yan was no longer his original red escape light, but a blue-and-red interwoven water-fire escape light.
After repairing the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact and making progress with his water-type cultivation method, Wang Yan had followed Card Fairy's advice and integrated his water-type divine abilities into the Heavenburning Art, forming a water-fire fusion cultivation method.
It was far stronger than ordinary cultivation methods. If he used the Water-Fire Fire Blast Immortal Card now, unleashing it through this fused water-fire divine ability, its power would likely soar at least three or fourfold. Even ordinary Golden Core Stage cultivators and demon beasts would not dare take it head-on.
Of course, this was also partly because repairing the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact had caused Wang Yan's cultivation and magic power to surge. He had already reached the early Core Condensation Realm...
Under normal circumstances, with a blessed cultivation site like the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain, Wang Yan would have had no need to return to the Firecloud Sect. Staying there to cultivate would have been best.
However, both Card Fairy and the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage had advised him to return, and Wang Yan himself still had to make one more trip to the Firecloud Sect. He had sworn an oath when he joined the sect, after all, and naturally could not disregard it. His cultivation and divine abilities were not yet powerful enough to erase that oath...
Besides, Ye Shisan was waiting for him, and the one-year deadline Venerable Gray Three had given him was fast approaching.
That was why