"Ancestor... Tianxing?!"
Just as the disciples of the Profound Elixir Palace were still trying to react, Elder Niu, who stood beside the Old Palace Master, suddenly looked utterly horrified.
Then, his voice trembling, he asked Old Palace Master Xuanfeng:
"Palace Master, was the Heavenly Journey Ancestor you just mentioned the founding Palace Master of our Profound Elixir Palace, Jiang Feng Tianxing?!"
Palace Master Jiang Xuanfeng did not answer. He remained facing the shriveled corpse, his hands clasped and his body bowed in deference.
Rumble!
Just as Elder Niu was about to ask again, a violent rumbling suddenly rang out, shaking the earth and mountains.
Through the shattered windows of the Blade-Testing Pavilion, the panicked disciples of the Profound Elixir Palace saw countless streams of mountain and river spiritual qi within the Immortal Mansions Mountain where their palace stood swarming toward the pavilion from every direction like green snakes.
In the blink of an eye, those countless green-snake-like streams of mountain and river spiritual qi converged into eight enormous currents, each several dozen feet thick. They burst through the windows on all eight sides of the Blade-Testing Pavilion and rushed straight toward Beiguo Xiao's shriveled corpse.
Boom!
After another violent qi explosion, Elder Niu discovered, his eyes filled with horror, that all eight currents of mountain and river spiritual qi, like raging rivers, had poured into Beiguo Xiao's shriveled corpse.
More terrifying still was this.
Those eight currents, which had gathered almost all the mountain and river fortune of the Profound Elixir Palace's immortal abode, did not burst Beiguo Xiao's body apart. Instead, he absorbed every last trace of them.
Beiguo Xiao's shriveled corpse was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much mountain and river spiritual qi gathered, it could not be filled.
At this sight, Elder Niu said in