Cultivation: I Have a Golden Talisman

The Celestial Jade Lineage of the Beiming Immortal Race once produced a Spirit Immortal who attained the Dao through sheer power.

Three hundred years after this Spirit Immortal ascended, their incarnation descended upon Beiming Heaven. They passed down a Supreme Body Refining Technique, which became one of the five great Spirit Immortal legacies of the Beiming Immortal Race.

This Body Refining Technique unleashed the full potential of the Kunpeng Bloodline within the Beiming Immortal Race, granting them powerful physiques comparable to those of Tier Five Demon Beasts.

Since the founding of the Beiming Immortal Race, the clan has never lacked for geniuses, producing an unending stream of masters in every generation.

Beiming Yong was hailed as the foremost genius of the Beiming Immortal Race in the last thousand years. His reputation was such that he could almost be called the most talented Cultivator within the Eight Heavens of the North Netherworld in a millennium!

Although his cultivation was currently only at the Seven Tribulations level, the strength of his physical body was in no way inferior to that of a Nine-Tribulation Body Refining Great Power.

Moreover, the giant bow in his hand was one of the ten great Clan Treasures of the Beiming Immortal Race, its power exceeding that of an ordinary fifth-grade top-quality magic artifact.

With this bow alone, Beiming Yong had slain more than ten individuals of the same cultivation level as himself.

He had even slain two Nine-Tribulation Great Powers.

However, he never cared for empty fame, so besides a few high-ranking members of the Beiming Immortal Race, outsiders knew nothing of these deeds.

Now, as Beiming Yong fired an arrow at Feng Yan, the crowd finally realized just how intense the Palace Master's killing intent was.

The Demon Saint Spiritual Light, which the Five Elements Divine Light Destruction Array had been unable to breach, was pierced through by a single arrow from Beiming Yong.

Just as the arrow, shimmering with golden light, was about to pierce the spot between Feng Yan's eyebrows, a palm-sized, Cyan-Black Great Tomb suddenly appeared before her forehead. The arrow sank into the tomb and disappeared.

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

BOOM!

A muffled boom echoed through the void as the Cyan-Black Great Tomb abruptly swelled to thirty feet wide. A blinding golden light pulsed faintly from within, and numerous cracks spiderwebbed across its surface.

But in the next moment, the cracks on the Cyan-Black Great Tomb slowly mended, and in a flash, it was restored to its original, pristine state.

Before the onlookers could get a closer look, in the blink of an eye, Beiming Yong's third arrow arrived.

This arrow was even more powerful than the second.

Feng Yan's expression grew solemn. Apparently sensing the extraordinary nature of Beiming Yong's Divine Technique, she hurriedly urged the Cyan-Black Great Tomb to swallow this arrow as well.

The Cyan-Black Great Tomb shuddered violently, even more cracks bursting across its surface. Blinding golden light shot out from the fissures, and it looked as if it were about to be blown to pieces.

But bizarrely, as if it had a life of its own, the tomb instantly healed all its cracks.

The arrow, powerful enough to slay a Nine-Tribulation Great Power, was completely buried within the great tomb.

Beiming Yong unhurriedly drew his giant bow and loosed the fourth arrow.

Meanwhile, Ascendant Tianyu and the other Immortal Palace Elders seized the opportunity, focusing their energy and frantically powering the Five Elements Divine Light Destruction Array in an attempt to distract Feng Yan and shatter her defenses.

BOOM!

The Cyan-Black Great Tomb shuddered again, almost shattered by the erupting power of the arrow.

This arrow's power had abruptly jumped to a whole new level.

Beiming Yong gave her no chance to catch her breath; the fifth arrow arrived in an instant.

Feng Yan's delicate brows furrowed, and a deep chill flared in her phoenix-like eyes as she took out the Talisman Fang Cheng had left for her.

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「Yuhua Tower, Jiyu Pavilion.」

From within the private room, the sounds of a man's eloquent discourse and a woman's clear, sweet laughter drifted out intermittently.

The two were in the midst of pleasant conversation when Fang Cheng suddenly let out a soft sound of surprise and fell silent.

Beiming Cang Xue's beautiful eyes flickered as she asked with a smile, "Is something wrong, Elder Pu Hua?"

Fang Cheng looked at her radiant, smiling face and suppressed the complicated thoughts in his mind. He stood up and said, "I have some business to attend to and must leave for a while."

Beiming Cang Xue nodded, a hint of reluctance in her expression. "Senior, please don't forget our agreement," she said softly. "I will be here in a month to await your esteemed return."

Fang Cheng smiled. "Until we meet again."

With that, his figure flickered and vanished from the private room.

In the next moment.

High above Yuhua Tower, in the dome of the sky, an ethereal beam of sword light abruptly appeared.

The sword light resolved into the figure of Fang Cheng. With a press of his hand, endless starlight surged from beneath his feet, coalescing into a slowly turning Star Grinding Wheel.

His towering Profound Gold Body instantly transformed into starlight and vanished into the heavens.

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「Celestial Snow Plateau.」

Within a quiet mountain valley, a cliff face suddenly lit up with innumerable points of starlight. They flowed along a profound trajectory, activating a Teleportation Array.

Starlight surged from the array, revealing a tall figure. A moment later, Fang Cheng stepped out composedly.

He flew out of the valley and looked to the north. A vast, ocean-like expanse of five-colored light filled the sky, trapping Feng Yan within it.

Farther away, an incomparably tyrannical presence hung in the sky like a blazing sun.

He heard the man say indifferently, "Since the day I began my path, no one has ever withstood ten of my arrows. Feng Yan, you should be proud."

'Such arrogance.'

Fang Cheng sneered. Without a second thought, he waved his great sleeve and unleashed a beam of Taixu Sword Qi toward the man.

The ethereal Sword Qi, capable of tearing the heavens and rending the earth, instantly broke free of its constraints, lunging forward like a primordial beast bursting from the Nine Netherworld!

Just as Beiming Yong was about to loose his eleventh arrow, he suddenly saw the world between heaven and earth fade into a blur. A single, sharp, ethereal beam of sword light was all that remained, occupying his entire field of view.

He whirled around and fired an arrow.

BOOM!

The golden, rainbow-like arrow collided with the Sword Qi. In an instant, the world shook, and for hundreds of miles around, the peaks of every snow-capped mountain crumbled to dust.

A dazzling golden halo, over a thousand feet wide, bloomed in the sky. Within it, countless streams of tyrannical Sword Qi intertwined, spiraling and lashing out in a frenzy.

The void around the golden halo shattered, roiling with spatial turbulence. The terrifying killing intent radiating from within the light made even Ascendant Tianyu and the other Immortal Palace Elders shudder in fear. They all began to wonder what powerful entity had appeared to interfere with the great affairs of the Beiming Immortal Palace.