Three months passed in the flick of a finger.
The vast territories once occupied by the Five Demonic Sects had now all fallen under the Star Palace's rule. The Southern Heaven Cultivation World had undergone a complete reshuffling. Under Han Li's thunderous methods and the temptation of two supreme legacies-the Great Evolutionary Sword Art and the Star Essence Soul-Refining Art-nearly every righteous faction had merged wholesale into the Star Palace, creating an unprecedented, highly centralized new powerhouse.
Atop Star-Magnetic Peak, the newly expanded Star Palace Main Altar shimmered with flowing light, its formations shining in magnificent splendor. Deep underground, the treasuries of the former Demonflame Sect, Ghost Spirit Sect, and the other three sects had been thoroughly inventoried, sorted, and refined. An immense fortune of four billion Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, over a hundred million middle-grade spirit stones, several million upper-grade spirit stones, and seven top-grade spirit stones formed the Star Palace's unshakable economic foundation. Yet the most striking prize was not the spirit stones, but three grayish-white Form-Transformation Pills radiating a strange Dao rhythm, discovered deep within the Ghost Spirit Sect's forbidden grounds alongside the Heavenly Star Token Core Fragment.
These pills were extraordinary. Ancient mighty cultivators had specially refined them for demonic beasts and spirit birds. Taking one could shed a beast's body and reconstruct a human form while preserving all cultivation and innate divine abilities, and could even subtly purify the bloodline over time. For the Magnetic Essence Griffin, who had long since awakened his intelligence, reached the Nascent Soul late stage, and possessed ancient god essence blood and Grand Void spiritual power, this was precisely the opportunity he had dreamed of!
That day, deep within the forbidden grounds in the rear mountains of the Headquarters Altar.
Han Li stood with his hands behind his back, a radiant