On the Fire Mulberry Tree, Wang Quan watched the flames dancing across the sky in silence.
Ruo Jinghong, whom he had not seen in a long time, sat upright on a cloud opposite him.
Ever since her Dao companion Tongtong had arrived, this woman's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds.
After accompanying Wang Quan to the Far Northern Land some days ago and spending some time with Ying Jiaren, she had returned to even faster progress.
Now, like Wang Quan, she had built up most of her foundations in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
All she lacked now were the materials to open up her Purple Mansion.
Converted into Green Fly Coins, the materials an Orthodox Cultivator needed to open up a Purple Mansion could nurture eighty to a hundred New Method Golden Cores.
The Green Fly Coins needed for Dao Seal Cultivators like Wang Quan and Ruo Jinghong to open up their Purple Mansions could nurture eighty to a hundred orthodox Purple Mansion Cultivators.
Compared with other cultivators, Wang Quan and the others were clearly somewhat slower in opening up their Purple Mansions.
If they wanted to speed things up, they would have to sacrifice some of their Purple Mansions' power.
But Dao Seal Cultivators like them would never give up any of their own power.
Thus, whether Wang Quan, Ruo Jinghong, or Mei Niang and the others, they were all patiently biding their time, accumulating the materials to open up their Purple Mansions.
They had all prepared themselves long ago: if they could open up their Purple Mansions after waiting two or three hundred years, they could accept that.
If they could do it within eighty to a hundred years, they would absolutely laugh out loud.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Ruo Jinghong breathed, drawing in and exhaling flames formed