"So that's it."

Shen Yi looked the place over a while longer and got the general idea.

There were no jade slips here and no books; this was plainly not the Technique-Storing Pavilion's secret chamber he had imagined, but simply private tutoring arranged for Xuanqing.

No wonder even an elder's Dao token could not open the wooden door.

Looked at from the other side… Senior Xuanqing had been holding the Sect Master's authority while he was still a disciple.

Shen Yi shook his head.

In fact this was a good deal more convenient, and saved him the time of picking through it all himself.

But before that, he had better digest what he was carrying.

Twelve Return-to-Void-realm water-kin demons had supplied close to five hundred thousand years of demon lifespan, with better than twenty thousand more from the old dragon-fish.

【Remaining Demon Lifespan: 1,220,000 years · Can Be Condensed】

Shen Yi first condensed six Anchor-Stones.

Then tried to turn the old dragon-fish's corpse into a sea of blood and pour it into an Anchor-Stone.

And it was then that he felt an enormous resistance coming from the Dao Palace at his brow.

As though one mountain would not hold two tigers.

Checking carefully, he found it was the dragon-fish pillar already merged into the Dao Palace.

Father and daughter though they were, it still regarded the old dragon-fish's corpse as a mortal enemy.

"……"

Shen Yi did know that only one of the same Anchor-Stone could exist.

But he had not expected that one already turned into a Dao-pillar should count as well.

He sighed a little.

Not that he was too disappointed.

Anything that could be beaten to death outright by the green rhino Anchor-Stone could hardly be much of an article.

If he could not have it, he could not have it.

Shen Yi changed tack and poured the corpse into the dragon-fish pillar instead.

The dragon-fish pattern above it began to change: the knob on its brow turned slowly into a dragon's horn, and the pillar's grade rose again.

He had already taken the gift of heaven…