Roar—

Shen Yi held his right palm level, gripping that straight long spear.

Scales welled up along it, and the pearl-jade at the blade seemed a living eye; it gave out a horrifying low growl.

Ke the Thirteenth drifted at his side and could only watch as the dragon-spear struggled desperately in its master's hand, and could by no means work free of those long fingers, until it was wholly subdued.

Eighteen thousand years to Entry Level, forty thousand to Minor Accomplishment, eighty-nine thousand to Major Accomplishment!

With Ke the Thirteenth's help.

Shen Yi had at last come by a rate of cultivation beyond an ordinary Return-to-Void cultivator's.

What Return-to-Void cultivator is not a man of outstanding gifts?

But those who can read a spirit-method are very few, and those who can carry one to Major Accomplishment before their lifespan runs dry are rarer still.

It was, after all, the technique Ke the Thirteenth had made its own chief study.

Had the demon soul not been drained so heavily before, then given lifespan enough there might even have been a chance of touching Perfection.

A spirit-method carried to Perfection — in all Nanhong, most White Jade Capital cultivators probably do not have that much behind them.

【Return-to-Void (Numinous) · Azure Dragon Star-Shattering Spear: Major Accomplishment】

【Remaining Demon Lifespan: 83,000 years】

Shen Yi got the feel of the dragon-spear a little. It was a demon-weapon refined by the Dragon Palace's secret methods and could not be simply set beside a cultivator's Treasure; but in material and in spirit alone, it stood more than a tier above the dark-gleaming flying sword at his waist.

"Shall I take you off to relax a while?"

Shen Yi knew well that the impatient cannot eat hot beancurd, and was in no hurry to pour the last few tens of thousands of years into a technique.

Three spirit-methods at Major Accomplishment, and for any of them that last step into Perfection was extremely hard.

Ke the Thirteenth's condition was not very good just now. Better to let it rest.

"Relax… again?"

The dragon grandson's face went…