"Fellow Daoist Ruan, do you know roughly when the Void Sky Hall will open?" Xiao Yu wanted to see whether she could give him an exact date, so he asked.
"Well, it should be sometime around now. Although the hall opens once every three hundred years, a few years earlier or later is perfectly normal," Yuan Yao said uncertainly.
Seeing this, Xiao Yu decided not to press her further and brought up another matter instead.
"What about the other item you mentioned?" At these words, Yuan Yao promptly took out a wooden box and supported it with her magical power, sending it floating slowly toward Xiao Yu.
Once the wooden box came within a hundred feet of him, he reached out and grasped at the air. A large azure hand formed from spiritual power appeared above the box and swept down to seize it.
Only after cutting off Yuan Yao's magical power did Xiao Yu bring the wooden box before him. He then blew a breath of pure air over it, and the box opened on its own, revealing a green pellet the size of a thumb.
"This is the powerful treasure I mentioned, fellow Daoist. It is called Azure Fire Thunder, a single-use explosive personally refined by the Three Suns Old Fiend. Its power approaches that of a casual strike from an early Nascent Soul stage cultivator," Yuan Yao explained from beside him.
"Azure Fire Thunder!" The pellet looked utterly unremarkable, with only the faintest fluctuations of spiritual power on its surface. Without examining it carefully, he would never have noticed them.
This was what Yuan Yao had offered Xiao Yu in her earlier voice transmission as payment for driving away the three Azure Sun Sect cultivators.
Although Xiao Yu was now confident that his sword formation could unleash