At the end of a mountain valley.


    A cluster of thick, pale-gray smoke was slowly prating and dissolving a ward of slithering lightning bolts formed by multiple Tool Sect elders.


    A number of thunderballs were floating in midair, flickering and giving rise to heaven-shaking, earth-shattering rumbles from time to time.


    Beast-like shadows could be vaguely seen within those thunderballs. They were apparently struggling and trying to break away from the thunderballs as the Death Reign closed in on them.


    “We can’t hold much longer, sectmaster,” An elder with dangling, long, white eyebrows, who resembled Zhu Bin, said with a suffering expression. “It’ll take the Death Reign a quarter hour at the most to breach ourst defensive ward.”


    The elder was named Zhu Lian, Zhu Bin’s cousin and ate Profound realm cultivator.


    Eyebrows furrowed, Qi Bailu gazed at the slowly approaching Death Reign. With a helpless sigh, he ordered, “Inform all supervising disciples to urge the equipment forgers who are attending the assessment assembly to stop and return to Deste City. Tell them not to stay in Deste City, and that they need to evacuate via the inter-realm teleportation portal as soon as possible.”


    Standing next to him, an elder who was responsible for giving out orders answered with a grim expression, “Got it, sectmaster.” Then, he took out a Sound Stone and whispered Qi Bailu’s order into it.


    Afterwards, Qi Bailu asked the elders around him, “Have Zhu Bin and my junior martial sister found that traitor yet?”


    “Not yet.”


    Qi Bailu nodded as he summoned Zhu Lian to his side and said, “Here’s what we’ll do: you’ll take everyone here back to our sect’s headquarters. Once you’re back, activate the grand protective spell formation. I’ll stall the Death Reign for you.”


    WHOOSH!


    With these words, an object flew out from within his cuff.


    It was a bronze mirror with a smooth surface, within which torrential mes could be seen, as if it was sealing a mysterious fiery dimension.


    The treasure was named the me Mirror, a seventh level Spirit Channeling grade treasure. Even in the entire Domain of the Falling Stars, it was considered one of the most prestigious spiritual tools in existence.


    After whooshing out of Qi Bailu’s cuff, the palm-sized bronze mirror rapidly expanded and filled the entire mountain valley within seconds.


    Endless mes poured out from within it, aggravating the fluctuations of spatial energy in the valley.


    It was as if the me Mirror was serving as a medium that connected the mountain valley with a dimension of infinite mes.


    Soon, not only the mountain valley, but also the adjacent areas were engulfed by the raging mes that poured out of the me Mirror.


    Standing at the end of the valley, powerful experts from the Tool Sect looked at the me Mirror and the endless mes before them, feeling as if they were looking at apletely different world.


    Qi Bailu’s figure faded, as if he had turned into an faint shadow which could vanish at any moment. “Go, Zhu Lian! Take all of our sect members back to our headquarters! No one is allowed toe out before I return!” With these words, he vanishedpletely into thin air.


    Simultaneously, his vague figure appeared in the middle of the torrential mes within the gigantic me Mirror.


    He continued to summon endless mes from that mysterious dimension and rapidly turned into an enormous man of mes, as if he had be the imperial lord of that mysterious dimension and the infinite mes within it.


    As the cluster of thick smoke formed by the Death Reign continued to press forward, Zhao Shanling’s voice rang out from the depths of it. “My beloved senior martial brother, you’ve finally summoned your me Mirror. I can’t wait to see if your me Mirror is able to stop my Death Reign!”


    The might of the Death Reign seemed to suddenly surge, causing the thunderballs before it to instantly be dim and lifeless.


    “Why are you still here?!” Qi Bailu shouted.


    Zhu Lian made a grasping motion in the air, and the thunderballs flew back to him. With reddened eyes, he looked at Qi Bailu and said, “Take care, sectmaster! We’ll be waiting for you in our headquarters!”


    “Let’s go!” He took the initiative to fly towards the Tool Sect.


    The other Profound realm experts from the Tool Sect also leaped into the sky and sped away after him, bearing their grief.


    “Zhao Shanling, don’t you imagine that you’ll be able to do whatever you want by hiding in the dark and controlling your Death Reign!” Qi Bailu’s voice echoed out from within the enormous me Mirror. “Master’s biggest mistake was expelling you into the boundless void, instead of killing you. The reason why master made that mistake was that he treated you as his child and couldn’t bear to kill you. But I won’t make the mistake he made!”


    Zhao Shanlingughed unceasingly like a madman. “What you have now should have belonged to me, senior martial brother. Of the three of us, you were the least talented. The spiritual tool you forged back then was the weakest. I should have been the winner of the contest!


    “What did I do wrong by exterminating those puny sects and unifying the Realm of Unbounded Destion?


    “Even though those old bastards in our sect knew the Tool Sect benefited from what I did, they paraded their pretended benevolence and righteousness in front of everyone, and even used my deed as an excuse to punish me!


    “I’ve returned this time to take back what should have been mine! Whoever dares to question me again shall die!”


    WHOOSH!


    The cluster of thick pale-gray smoke created by the Death Reign finally came into contact with the raging mes unleashed by the me Mirror.


    ...


    At midday, the sun was high and fierce.


    Li Jing’s Blood Lotus took Nie Tian and the others to a silent mountain valley surrounded by extinct volcanoes.


    After tens of thousands of years, the earthme essence within them had long since run out.


    Afternding, Li Jing had a brief conversation with Nie Tian, telling him that Zhen Hun had asked her to pass word to him that she wanted Nie Tian to contact Hua Mu.


    Nie Tian was aware that, since Hua Mu was a senior member of the Spirit Condor, he would be able to get in contact with Hua Mu as long as he returned to Shatter City in the Realm of Split Void and found Hu Rong, who was also a member of the Spirit Condor.


    It was just that the inter-spatial teleportation portal was located in Deste City, and that was where Zhao Shanling’s Death Reign was heading. Hence, he couldn’t go there for a while.


    Furthermore, considering the turmoil that was hitting the Realm of Boundless Destion, it wouldn’t be safe to travel around at this moment.


    Therefore, Nie Tian and the others decided to stay in this silent mountain valley until the situation stabilized.


    Under the scorching sun, Nie Tian practiced cultivation in the lotus position while Dong Li sat not far from him, lolling against arge rock.


    “It seems that the Realm of Unbounded Destion isn’t as hot as when we first came here.” Nie Tian said with furrowed eyebrows as he refined his vortex of me power with me Crystals. “Neither Deste City, the Bonebrutes’ former headquarters, nor the Bone Sect’s ruins were in the middle of active volcanoes, yet I felt unbearably hot in those ces.”


    “But since we returned from... you know where, I don’t feel as hot as I did before.”


    Holding a odd-looking, ck spirit stone, Dong Li’s bright eyes moved about as she pondered. A momentter, she said, “I bet it’s because those people from the me God Sect have taken significant amounts of earthme essence away from the volcanoes in the Realm of Unbounded Destion, which is causing the atmosphere to change.”


    Intrigued, Nie Tian asked, “The deprivation of earthme essence can cause such a tremendous change?”


    “Yeah.” Dong Li nodded. “But that doesn’t concern us. We don’t nning on staying in the Realm of Unbounded Destion long-term anyways. Also, there’s no need to worry about the loss of earthme essence here. As far as I know, the Tool Sect has their way of channeling me power from other dimensions to replenish the deficient me power in the Realm of Unbounded Destion.”


    “The Tool Sect can actually do that?” A shocked expression appeared on Nie Tian’s face.


    “It’s said that the Tool Sect’s grand protective spell formation connects a few small, fiery dimensions. Even Qi Bailu’s me Mirror has a simr function, which allows him to summon raging me power from other dimensions to attack his enemies.” Dong Li chuckled. “You should know that many of the spatial rifts in the Void Illusion Mountain Range in the Realm of Split Void which lead to fiery dimensions were purchased by the Tool Sect at high prices.”


    “Most of them aren’t fit for creatures to live in, but contain considerable amounts of me power.”


    “In order to make use of said me power, the Tool Sect established inter-spatial connections with those fiery dimensions using their grand spell formation and the me Mirror.”


    “The Tool Sect is the only sect that can do that. As formidable as Xia Yi is, he’s only one man.”


    “After all, the me God Sect’s strength isn’t as deeply-rooted as the Tool Sect’s. If, like the Tool Sect, the me God Sect had also umted a number of fiery dimensions over thousands of years, Xia Yi wouldn’t havee all the way to the Realm of Unbounded Destion to collect earthme essence to prepare for his next breakthrough in cultivation.”


    Nie Tian was carried away as he marveled subconsciously, “The Tool Sect’s strength is indeed astonishingly profound.”


    As he was absorbed in his thoughts, his eyebrows suddenly flickered as he sensed that the green aura in his heart had suddenly grown restless again.


    “Another bloodline transcendence!”