It was the night after Gu Chenfeng and his two companions finished exploring the underground ore vein.
On the outskirts of Great Li's Imperial Capital.
At the core of Lava Mountain Peak, filled with rolling scarlet flames and searing heat.
A figure shrouded in flames, eyes blazing with crimson light like torches, gazed toward the ore vein in the Western Outskirts of the Imperial Capital.
"To think it was a thousand-year spirit medicine on the verge of ripening.
No wonder I could never sense that thing's aura. It was being suppressed by this spirit medicine's aura!"
At the same time, above a sheer cliff, a black cloud formed from countless Gu insects hovered.
Suddenly, countless Gu insects let out piercing screeches.
At the center of the swarm, a pair of eyes gleaming green looked eagerly in a certain direction.
"That old bastard was so cunning. He toyed with the experts of our Yan Province's four great sects for nearly a hundred years.
Now we've finally found traces of that thing!"
At the bottom of a thousand-foot-deep pool, the eyes of a middle-aged man in blue, a sword on his back, suddenly lit up.
"Hiss...!"
Towering sword qi shot skyward from his body, piercing through the deep pool and stirring up colossal waves that shredded the surrounding vegetation and rocks to dust.
"It's finally shown itself. That thing must belong to our Tianxuan Sword Sect!"
In the blink of an eye.
Seven days had passed since the treasure hunt in the ore vein.
Inside a side room of the Gu residence.
Gu Chenfeng sat cross-legged on his bed, seemingly deep in sleep.
Yet within the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins, Gu Chenfeng sat on the Enlightenment Platform.
Golden radiance rippled around him, astral qi swirling and whipping up fierce, whistling