Nearly two hundred people assembled on Jade Splendor Peak.
Huo Jingyan, head of the External Affairs Court, turned his hand over. A speck of white light flew from his palm, swelling in the wind until it became an enormous Cloud Vessel.
"Everyone, get aboard."
Cheng Xinzhan had never seen such a large flying artifact. Once aboard, he looked all around, trying to make out the crafting methods and Spell Restrictions within it.
Once everyone had boarded the Cloud Vessel, Huo Jingyan counted heads. After confirming that everyone was present, he set the artifact in motion.
The Cloud Vessel became a streak of light and swiftly vanished into the horizon.
[Size alteration], [Making the intangible tangible], [Summoning clouds and commanding wind]...
He looked around at the restrictions inside the vessel, sensing them carefully.
"What are you looking at?"
Someone clapped him on the shoulder from behind.
Cheng Xinzhan turned around and exclaimed in delight,
"Daoist brother!"
It was Feng Ji Hu.
Looking to either side, he found that all his companions from the Yellow Mountain trip were there. There had been so many people on Jade Splendor Peak earlier that he had failed to notice them.
But He Jiyuan was nowhere to be seen.
Cheng Xinzhan sighed inwardly. He understood that, compared with the rest of them, his Daoist brother Jiyuan had progressed a little more slowly.
With True Baleful Intent driving through his acupoints, Cheng Xinzhan himself had opened the heart and lung palaces of the Five Palaces, along with three additional lightning apertures. He had neglected none of his Thunder Arts, sword arts, crafting arts, talisman arts, or incantation arts.
Sun Miaoshu had reached the Second Realm at the end of the year before last. She was now a direct disciple of Purple Mist Mountain, cultivating the extremely difficult