Everyone saw it clearly.
That entirely new aura-or rather, substance-was replacing the original eerie demon domain with unstoppable force.
Hiss...
Hiss...
Hiss...
The strange sounds were no longer the wails of ghosts and howls of spirits, but soft murmurs like those produced during tempering and purification.
The immense black vortex spanning more than ten thousand li was slowing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
As it slowed, that unfathomable darkness began to dissolve inch by inch, crumbling away.
In its place came an almost transparent purity.
It was as though some supreme power had forcibly washed every trace of color and impurity from the foulest ink, leaving only the most fundamental, purest "water."
This time, every disciple saw it clearly.
What surrounded Gu Changqing was no longer that elusive, sinister, uncanny aura.
It was a vast ocean composed of tangible liquid!
Crystal clear, it refracted dreamlike radiance beneath the daylight, so breathtakingly beautiful that it seemed nothing of the mortal world.
More importantly, at the very instant the last trace of black was completely refined away,
a wine fragrance of supreme richness, enough to intoxicate all things, erupted!
No longer faint and intermittent, that fragrance became tangible ripples, sweeping outward in every direction with Gu Changqing at their center.
It pierced the clouds, skimmed the lofty heavens, and finally enveloped all of Golden Ao Island like the Heavenly River pouring down from above.
On Golden Ao Island, the millions of Jie Sect disciples who had just escaped the calamity of their heart-demons shuddered in unison the moment they caught that fragrance.
A single whiff left them feeling as though their primordial spirits were drifting and their divine senses were growing hazy.
The pain and terror of their earlier torment by heart-demons were washed utterly clean by that wondrous