In the Blood Demon Blessed Land, aboard the bone boat.
Seeing that Nangong Jinghe had no wish to discuss the matter further, Luo Qianchou left him alone and turned toward the sword boat ahead.
But his gaze did not rest on the sword boat, nor on Ling Shuang standing alone aboard it. It passed beyond them, straight toward the dense red clouds behind them.
"So this is the Creation Origin those Outer Domain cultivators spoke of? It certainly looks strange and sinister. Without practicing the Method of Observing Gods, I truly wouldn't be able to see its real form."
Luo Qianchou murmured to himself, then drew an exquisitely crafted little pagoda from his sleeve.
Neither its material nor the way it had been refined resembled anything from Azure Waves. Clearly, like Nangong Jinghe's Gold Ring, it was a treasure Luo Qianchou had brought down from the Void Realm by some means.
He quietly recited an incantation. A door on one level of the little pagoda slowly opened, and at his command of "Enter!" the frenzied god baring its fangs and claws above the blood clouds was sucked inside in an instant.
Luo Qianchou raised the little pagoda in his hands and sent his Spiritual Sense into it to observe.
The captured god hurled itself about inside the pagoda's first level, but no matter how it struggled, it could not break free of the treasure's restraints.
"Why is it so feral? It's nothing like what the people of the Outer Domain described."
Luo Qianchou probed the god's emotions but found nothing beyond boundless hatred and frenzy. "Not a shred of intelligence or reason. It's a creature of pure ferocity and Baleful Intent. Could this be something peculiar to Canglan Continent?"
He could not be sure. For a long time, he had