"Bitch, die! You dared swindle me out of my divine gold. You must have a death wish!"
The two had been walking for less than ten minutes when they saw a man and a woman racing through the distance, one pursuing the other. Both were spattered with blood, and some of their wounds were still bleeding.
The old woman who trafficked people had said that Fire Province used to be barren, but with so many dead buried in its soil, the land had become fertile, especially good for growing grass. Now it seemed she had been right.
Both combatants appeared to be perfected Venerables. In the Upper Realm, Venerables had suddenly become commonplace, bottom-rung fighters. Those below that level did not even qualify as cultivators.
Splat!
Blood sprayed in the distance. The woman's head was severed by the Full Moon Divine Saber, a Treasure Artifact the man had unleashed. Her lovely face was filled with defiance and a desperate attachment to life. Venerables had tenacious vitality; even a severed head would not kill them if it was reattached in time. "I didn't!"
The next instant, the man closed in, bringing down the Wild Goose Feather Saber in his hand to split her head in two.
Clang!
An azure droplet no larger than a pearl struck the Venerable's Wild Goose Feather Saber, forged from blue divine gold, with a crisp ring.
The young man's hand went numb. An irresistible force surged through it, wrenching the saber from his grip.
The stomach Heavenly Grotto acupoint controlled by Xiao Tian's Water Baby body held the source of heavenly one true water: the source of all waters, a single drop of which could become an ocean.
What had looked like a single droplet actually contained the power of heavenly one true water. One drop