Boom!
Just as everyone prepared to flee, they suddenly saw Xu Taiping manifest his Martial God Realm physique in the image displayed by the spirit mirror, thrusting a finger blazing with dazzling firelight toward the earthen-yellow pearl.
Caw!
With a crow's cry, a Fire Crow flew from Xu Taiping's fingertip and swallowed the earthen-yellow pearl in one gulp.
In an instant, the cold that had filled heaven and earth abruptly receded.
But after the Golden Crow formed from golden flames swallowed the earthen-yellow pearl, the flames enveloping its body began fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Within mere breaths, only a fist-sized clump of golden flame remained wrapped around the earthen-yellow pearl.
Bam!
Just then, Xu Taiping, who had manifested his Martial God Body, suddenly clapped both palms around the earthen-yellow pearl, then stuffed it into his mouth.
Boom!
The instant the pearl entered his mouth, that terrifying cold spread once more.
Frost began forming over Xu Taiping's body at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But whenever the frost was about to cover his entire body, a wave of heat formed from his blood vitality melted it all away.
"He... he's using his terrifying blood vitality to refine... refine this... Cold Sky Pearl!"
Mu Yun was the first to realize Xu Taiping's intention.
"Has he gone mad? Even True Fire couldn't withstand that thing's cold. How could he possibly refine it with blood vitality alone?"
"Quick, go fetch the prefect!"
At the treasury entrance, the cultivators clamored while the White-Robed Attendant sent his subordinates to fetch the prefect.
To everyone's surprise, however, Xu Taiping and the Cold Sky Pearl's cold actually fought back and forth on even terms.
"The cold is weakening. He really... really is refining that pearl."
Sensing the Cold Sky Pearl's cold