【Year 6,200 — through the long years' bitter cultivation, you have at last thoroughly digested the experience the predecessor left behind. This is an ability belonging to the Spirit-Transformation realm, yet you have mastered it in full.】

【Parting-Flame Heart-Burning Palm, Upper Volume: Perfection.】

Shen Yi still stood where he was, the surging purple-gold flame from before gone from his body, replaced by nine great suns circling round him. Around those colorless blazing suns, even the tender green grass took not the slightest harm, still lush and full of life. The terrifying heat had been wholly gathered and bound within the suns. This was the utmost mastery over power.

Shen Yi slowly withdrew his palms. The nine great suns swiftly collapsed, turning back into purple-gold flame and returning into the path infant, restoring the near-drained Heaven-Devouring demon infant to its earlier state of fullness.

By the annotations the estate's master had left, the Parting-Flame volume could only be reckoned an ordinary Spirit-Transformation technique; it had to be paired with the Heart-Burning volume to count as a Rare method that overpowered the Spirit-Transformation realm. Six thousand years — near enough two lifetimes of a Mixed Origin Grandmaster's lifespan. Only a true Spirit-Transformation-realm cultivator had the standing to cultivate this technique to Perfection.

"Not bad. The consumption's just a bit much."

Shen Yi adjusted his breath. Even with his Heaven-Devouring demon infant's foundation far surpassing that of same-realm cultivators, he could only unleash the Parting-Flame Palm once. Drawing aura from oneself was, in the end, a lesser path; to display the full might of so profound a technique, only heaven and earth could supply the sustenance.

【Remaining demon lifespan: sixteen thousand five hundred years.】

Sure enough, so long as he didn't touch demon martial arts, the lifespan lasted quite well.

Shen Yi set off toward the Eight-Direction Dining Hall. He'd only just caught sight of that tall building when he happened to see Aqing walking out with a richly dressed old man.

"Big Brother Shen, he has business to find you about."

Aqing came hurrying over, walking to Shen Yi's side a little…