Rumble...
Once the roar of clashing energy died away, the boundless Black Domain crumbled with it, revealing blue skies and broad daylight.
Standing in the wilderness, Xie Jinhuan casually stirred up the shifting sand to give this warmhearted, nameless fellow Daoist a proper burial, then examined an iron nail in his hand.
The nail was a foot long, pitch-black throughout, with a sharp tip and a threaded shaft. The four characters "Wu Earth Burrowing" were engraved on its tail. It was probably a special Dharma Artifact used for burrowing underground. Since this fellow Daoist had departed in such a hurry without leaving any last words, he would tentatively call it the Mountain-Piercing Nail.
It could be used to escape underground and probably to bore through mountains and break earth as well-a fine item for both offense and defense. After giving it a few looks, Xie Jinhuan tucked it into his robe and turned to inspecting his body.
When he refined the Jiao Core last time, he had not only mastered the bloodline Divine Abilities of Water Control and Yin Thunder, but his Daoist cultivation had also shot up a notch, reaching roughly the Five-Point-Two-Five Realm. This Rat Tunnel fellow Daoist's cultivation had fallen short of Mo Yuan's, but he had still provided quite a boost, bringing Xie Jinhuan to five-point-four.
At this rate, killing another two or three Fifth Realm cultivators with solid foundations should let him reach the peak and touch the threshold of the Immortal Ascendants.
But the problem with the Demon Path also lay in its sacrificial offerings. The further one advanced in cultivation, the fewer top cultivators there were. At the Fifth Realm, he could still catch a few Unorthodox Dao practitioners and dig out their hearts and lungs. Once he reached the Sixth Realm, however,