"The clouds protect the Yang Spirit while it practices techniques!" Wang Quan remarked casually.
The Round-Faced Daoist Nun chuckled. "You really refuse to waste even a moment!"
"Come, get on my cloud!"
She waved at the sky. "Cloud, come!"
Before long, a white cloud flew down from a vast bank of clouds, trailing a long tail of mist, and landed beside them.
They stepped onto the cloud. The Round-Faced Daoist Nun patted her Hundred-Treasure Pouch, and a tea table, tea, an incense burner, and other things flew out.
At a thought from Wang Quan, paper Palace Maidens flew out of a box and brewed and poured tea beside them.
"Junior brother, they're the leaders of the team refining [Iron Chain Baleful Intent]. Once you give the word, the refining will officially begin."
Wang Quan nodded to the cultivators. "Then let's begin!"
He knew how an individual refined [Iron Chain Baleful Intent], but he had yet to see how a team did it.
At this point, the Round-Faced Daoist Nun guided the cloud upward, eventually hovering over the eight-hundred-li Fury River.
On the mountaintop, a cultivator took a cannon-like magical artifact from his Hundred-Treasure Pouch and set it on the ground. Then he lit Sandalwood Incense, bowed three times, and finally sprayed a mouthful of Dharma Power onto it.
Boom!
The cannon roared. A thousand-foot fire dragon shot skyward and exploded with a thunderous crash at its highest point.
Immediately afterward, several other cultivators rubbed their hands together. Streaks of Thunderfire shot skyward, bursting one after another into fireworks that filled the sky.
Wang Quan sipped his tea and smiled. "Quite lively!"
The Round-Faced Daoist Nun wore an odd expression. "They never used to do this. A few years ago, Fellow Daoist Officiant talked them into it, saying that refining baleful