A small figure hung between the blue sky and the green sea, her ink-black pleated skirt stirring faintly.

A vast river of blood poured into this Anchor-Stone, and against all that crimson, her skin looked even paler.

Her thick lashes trembled, as if her eyelids weighed ten thousand pounds.

But the instant An Yi fully opened her eyes, her soft pupils narrowed into vertical slits, and a look of disdain for everything welled up in them.

Like a fierce tiger just woken, surveying its mountain forest!

Almost all of the Bright-Moon Frost Tiger clan's strong ones had gone into her: the tomb-keeping tiger demons from the Treasure-Moon great tomb and the tigers on the clouds just now. On top of those came two Dao-merging great demons at the late stage of the Earth Realm.

So much cultivation, so rich a bloodline, all gathered into a single body now.

At last, the demon power stored in that small body broke through to an unimaginable degree and successfully crossed the ceiling of Earth Realm Perfection.

"……" Shen Yi sensed an aura before him much like his own. Sure enough, demon-kin were just as they had been at the White Jade Capital. They had no limits from Dao weapons or heavenly kalpas. The five-weapon realm that was unique to him as a cultivator was simply a stage every demon had to pass through.

Of course, that was not necessarily a good thing.

After all, a cultivator wanted to cross the Five Kalpas because it helped his great road of cultivation. For a demon, breaking straight through to the Heaven Realm was plainly the better deal.

And cultivators had strengths that demons could not match.

For instance, there was a divine ability that came without any teacher the moment one reached Dao-merging. Even an early-stage Earth Realm cultivator like the Ten Thousand Forms Pavilion's Sect Master could use it quite well.

That was the method of sacrificing the living beings of one's treasured site.

Most cultivators could never bring themselves to destroy the very foundation of their own sect like that. But having it…