Bai Yi frowned slightly and sent a strand of Sword Qi from his fingertip, slicing straight into the bloodied back of Yun Taiji's hand.
As the blood faded, a dark mark resembling a brushstroke appeared at once.
"Then what is this?"
"Heh, it's nothing but the mark of someone who's been chosen."
Yun Taiji lowered his head and glanced at the mark on the back of his hand. Pride and regret mingled in his eyes before both gave way to unwillingness. He let out several cold laughs, then said:
Yi Daoting had first appeared more than a hundred thousand years ago. Back then, a top Great Faction in Langyu Qingming Heaven, second only to Six-Celestial City, had sought to destroy Six-Celestial City once and for all.
In secret, they captured the Dao Foundations and Living Souls of cultivators from one world after another, then forged the Heaven-Attracting Immortal-Crossing Grand Formation.
While producing large numbers of Nascent Soul and even Spirit Transformation cultivators, they also seized the bloodlines and Living Souls within those prodigies, refined them into so-called Saint Blood, and used it as Pills to help the top prodigies of the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace break through their realms.
"The Immortal-Attracting Main Palace?!"
At Yun Taiji's description, Bai Yi's heart jolted.
No wonder, when the ruined world of the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace appeared in the Immortal Alliance, more than half of the top Great Factions in Langyu Qingming Heaven had sent their disciples rushing over.
No wonder that, apart from the Four Realms Merchant Association and the prodigies from their few Middle Planes in the borderlands, the prodigies from those top Great Factions had shown little interest in the treasures and spirit objects in the Secret Realm.
The several Outer City disciples belonging to Peerless City, as well as that prodigy