Western Sea, Ziyuan Continent.
Within the Great Void, azure and yellow radiance flowed. Years turned, withering and flourishing alternated, and all manner of images manifested there before converging upon a single person.
[Years of Abundant Harvest] was complete!
The manifestations of four nurturing earth divine abilities intertwined in the sky. Within them emerged a boundless realm, its spirit deities dazzling, its nether evils lurking, the qi of its various aspects churning in confusion.
A young man in black robes stepped out of it. Runes shifted within his yellow eyes, gathering and dispersing by turns, proclaiming his extraordinary nature.
Four nurturing earth divine abilities!
To reach the Purple Mansion late stage at his age was exceedingly rare in the present era.
"That White Sheep came here earlier... and actually helped me complete this divine ability so quickly."
Xu Fayan briefly examined himself and sensed that, under the unifying influence of [Years of Abundant Harvest], all the spirit deities he had refined were interconnected. No obstruction remained; they had become a perfect whole.
The flaw of Dao lineages such as nurturing earth and Lingsa lay in their variety without refinement, their dispersion without cohesion. Yet [Years of Abundant Harvest] had remedied that flaw!
Having cultivated [Nether Sheep Rite], [Penetrating Azure Li], [Wilderness Under Heaven], and [Years of Abundant Harvest], he was already exceedingly close to the perfected nurturing earth realm. Only one final divine ability remained!
As he pondered, something unusual appeared in the northern seas. A faint wave of scorching heat drifted over.
His mystic eyes immediately activated, turning toward the distant Xia Lands. Though countless tens of thousands of miles lay between them, he could still see a black sun slowly rising from the depths of the earth, darkening heaven and earth until all light was gone.
"What-"
Even the