Qing Chen destroyed the talisman fragment, the gloom on his face turning into an indescribable frustration.
He had gone to painstaking lengths to kill the Black Fox King, obtain his complete primordial spirit, and gather everything needed to refine the pill, then had deliberately entrusted the Nine Netherworlds Soul-Returning Marrow to Yue Ting. He had thought that once the two of them met here, everything afterward could proceed, step by step, according to their earlier arrangements.
Yet this had to happen.
He did not know whether Yue Ting had reached Heavenly Skeleton City, nor how much use the Nine Netherworlds Soul-Returning Marrow would actually be.
Given Yue Ting's current cautious ways, he could not possibly show himself directly at the unique site of [Heavenly Skeleton City]. That was a dangerous part of the Rihai Sea Region!
He must have wanted Qing Chen to stir up some commotion before finding a way to rendezvous.
Qing Chen glanced at the indistinct mark on the sea chart and finally let out a quiet sigh.
"Truly, man's plans are no match for heaven's."
"Yue Ting, oh, Yue Ting. If I take this risk and stir up the commotion you want, you had better refine that pill properly for me. Otherwise, even cutting you into a thousand pieces would not quell the hatred in my heart!!!"
A gray-black boat rose beneath his feet and skimmed away across the boundless black sea.
At the boundary between the Star and Moon Sea Regions, amid gray mist that never saw daylight all year round, lay a low range of barren mountains stretching more than ten thousand li.
This place was called [Darkstone Mountain], another publicly known unique site marked on the Hunt Token.
There were neither ancient pines nor old trees on the mountain, neither spirit springs