Above the Grotto-Heaven.
Blessed light surged, and auspicious clouds hung low. Huji and Qingyue stood atop the clouds, gazing down at the scenery far below, until the gazes of several mighty beings descended between heaven and earth, stirring the spiritual currents and making Divine Abilities difficult to discern.
Li Fire ignited along the clouds beside them. At one moment, danger and alarm dissolved; at another, it accorded with the great age. An unseen protection descended from the unseen depths.
"Golden Scale."
Qingyue's tone was solemn, filled with the utmost reverence. This Spirit Sword could rightly be called the foremost sword in the Northern Lands. Even [Fine Dust] from his Peaceful Mountain could scarcely rival its killing power.
Of the five metals, Geng Metal possessed the strongest affinity for slaughter. And the mighty being who now occupied that position had attained the Dao at the end of Feng, obtaining Geng Metal atop mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
From ancient times to the present, there had never been another path to Dao attainment so brutal and horrifying. And this Golden Scale was precisely the sword that [True Lord Geng Martial Zhengping Bai Yi] had wielded in years past.
"With these two Spirit Treasures brought forth, this no longer has much to do with Purple Mansion cultivators."
Huji's tone was somewhat peculiar. He had lived an exceedingly long time and could well be said to have many years in the Dao. Naturally, he knew about both Spirit Treasures.
Although the Heavenly Decline Yin Candle contained a strand of golden nature, Golden Scale was no less remarkable: it too contained one. Even now, no one knew the origin of the golden nature within the sword.
Golden nature was the condensation of a fruit position in the mortal world, the manifestation of a