"...For that reason, after leaving the Flowing Fire Grand Transformation Grotto-Heaven, I also wanted to join the excitement in the Eastern Sea. If I could claim first place at the Dharma Assembly, the journey would not have been in vain."
The sea wind raged, and white waves towered into the sky.
Before them, sea and sky shared a single hue, stretching beyond the limits of sight. Like a painted scroll, the scenery was magnificent.
Spray surged more than a hundred feet high, like countless white gulls and egrets gathering in flight, almost charging into the highest heavens...
After briefly explaining why he had come, Chen Heng reined in his sword light slightly and likewise said with a smile:
"But what about you, senior brother? Why aren't you in Golden Drum Cave, firing mercury and refining pills, balancing yin and yang? How did you end up here in the Eastern Sea, and even provoke people from the Xiantian Demon Sect?"
At this, Cui Jingzhong gave two bitter chuckles, his expression complicated. He reached up and rubbed his plump face hard, then inexplicably brightened and told Chen Heng joyfully:
"Junior fellow disciple, you don't know this, but the True Lord has mastered the Zhongyi Sword Sect's great Divine Ability, 'Mysterious Spirit Nether Transformation'... Recently, he has been preparing to harmonize the cauldron and regulate yin and yang, to pass the fire calamity of the Three Calamities and advance his cultivation another step!"
"The fire calamity? The True Lord is going to face the fire calamity?"
Chen Heng's eyes flickered at the news, and he could not help remarking:
"And after the fire calamity comes the lightning calamity... The True Lord's cultivation has finally reached this stage."
Out of regard for Qiao Yubi, Cui Jingzhong could hardly stand aside and do nothing. He