85: Ye Feiyan broke through to the late stage of the Golden Core realm, leaving the Blood Ancestor stunned.

Above the White Jade Plaza, Mysterious Ink quietly coiled, its majestic dragon pupils silently watching the beautiful figure shrouded by the "guixu water bubble," as if isolated from the world.

Time quietly flowed by in this monotonous wait.

Another three days passed.

"Buzz—!"

The previously indestructible "guixu water bubble" finally transformed into countless specks of light after a violent spatial fluctuation, dissipating into nothingness.

Ye Feiyan emerged.

When she reopened her cool phoenix eyes, her entire demeanor had undergone a complete, earth-shattering change once again!

A terrifying aura, far more profound and several times more solidified than the Golden Core Middle Stage, belonging to the Late Golden Core Stage, flashed across her body!

"Hmm?"

A hint of surprise flickered in Mysterious Ink's dragon pupils.

"You little girl, why did you stay inside for so long? And your cultivation actually advanced by a minor Realm?"

Ye Feiyan slowly rose, a smile of "as expected" gracing her exquisite face.

She slowly began to explain, "I passed the final assessment left by Senior Sea Truth. He originally wanted to entrust me with the entire Legacy of this Tidal Palace."

"However…" She changed her tone, her voice filled with the unique, ingrained pride of a Reborn Empress, "A mere Soul Transformation-level Legacy, I don't care for it."

"So, I made a deal with him. In exchange for giving up the Legacy, I received another reward that was more useful to me."

As she spoke, she waved her delicate hand, and a massive sea beast corpse, a hundred zhang long, covered in ice-blue scales, appeared on the plaza. Even though it had been dead for a long time, a terrifying, heart-palpitating pressure still emanated from its remains!

"A complete corpse of a Low Grade Fourth-tier sea beast, the 'Ice Soul Mysterious Flood Dragon'!"

"I refined it on the spot, which is why I was delayed for so long, and my cultivation also fortunately advanced another step."

Mysterious Ink suddenly understood upon hearing this.

No wonder!

No wonder this girl's cultivation could leap from Golden Core Middle Stage to Late Golden Core Stage!

So, she had obtained such a heaven-sent Opportunity!

"Not bad." He nodded in satisfaction, then, with a flick of his dragon tail, he sent the "gift" he had already prepared for her to her front.

"Here, it's yours."

Those were precisely the corpses of True Person Xue Dan and that black-robed Golden Core Cultivator!

Seeing these two still-warm corpses, emanating the powerful auras of Golden Core Peak and Late Golden Core Stage, Ye Feiyan's phoenix eyes, which had originally been as calm as an ancient well, were instantly filled with endless ecstasy and fervor!

This… this was one Golden Core Peak and one Late Golden Core Stage!

If she could refine all of them… her cultivation might just directly step into the Golden Core Peak in one go?!

She suddenly realized.

This was Mysterious Ink, who had specifically hunted them for her!

An unprecedented, unfamiliar warm current instantly flowed through her heart.

This was a warmth she, as the aloof and arrogant Empress in her previous life, had never felt.

She looked at Mysterious Ink, and for the first time, her cool phoenix eyes carried a hint of unprecedented tenderness and sincerity.

"Mysterious Ink…"

"Thank you."

"Alright, alright." Mysterious Ink, however, impatiently wagged his tail, "Stop saying these useless things. Hurry up and properly improve your cultivation, don't drag me down all day long."

"..."

The slight trace of emotion that had just risen in Ye Feiyan was instantly choked away by this guy, vanishing into thin air.

She was speechless at once.

After a while, she reacted, and her suspicious gaze once again fell upon Mysterious Ink.

"That's not right… I've been in seclusion for so long, did you secretly break through too? Are you already at the Fourth-tier now?"

"No!" Mysterious Ink's answer was decisive, "Fourth-tier, that's equivalent to the Human Race's Nascent Soul Realm! How could it be so easy to Breakthrough?!"

After thinking about it, Ye Feiyan also felt that this made sense.

She snorted and once again made the vow she had repeated countless times.

"You just wait! Once I refine all these 'resources' and step into the Golden Core Peak, I will definitely catch up to you!"

...Afterward, no longer caring about the other Cultivators on the plaza who were already stunned speechless, the person and the snake immediately returned to Three Seas City.

There were no mishaps along the way.

Five days later, they once again returned to the already "well-known" Feiyan Pavilion.

Ye Feiyan, once again, skillfully handed the task of managing the shop and selling Medicinal Pills directly to Mysterious Ink.

As for herself, she once again entered the Alchemy secret chamber, beginning a new round of seclusion to refine "cultivation resources"!

...Meanwhile.

East Sea, Blood Fiend Sect's main headquarters.

Inside an Immortal Cave that was perpetually shrouded by endless blood clouds and filled with ominous and malevolent Qi.

The Blood Fiend Sect's only, and last, Nascent Soul Ancestor—Blood Spirit True Monarch—suddenly opened his eyes from his deep cultivation!

A hint of displeasure flashed in his cloudy old eyes.

"What is it, so urgent?"

Outside the Immortal Cave, a Disciple responsible for guarding the Sect's Soul Hall was scrambling, kneeling on the ground, trembling like a sieve!

"Old… Old Ancestor!" His voice trembled, filled with endless fear, "S-s-something big has happened!"

"Just now… the… the Soul Tablets of the Sect Leader and the four Elders who went to Tidal Palace…"

"All… all of them shattered!"

Boom—!!!!!!!

This news, like a Chaos Divine Thunder capable of splitting heaven and earth, fiercely struck Blood Spirit True Monarch's head!

He felt as if he almost couldn't catch his breath and would instantly be Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering!

Five!

A full five Golden Core Realm Cultivators!

Just like that… all gone?!

"You… you saw wrong?!" He roared in disbelief.

"N-no…" The Disciple stammered in reply, "This Disciple confirmed it three times, they really… really all shattered."

"Ah—!!!"

Instantly, a terrifying pressure filled with endless rage and killing intent, capable of making the entire Blood Fiend Sect's main headquarters tremble violently, erupted from within the Immortal Cave!

"Useless! A bunch of useless people!"

"Five Golden Core Cultivators, actually, completely wiped out?!"

Blood Spirit True Monarch was enraged to the extreme!

It would be one thing if others died!

But… but how could Blood Soul die?!

He was a Nascent Soul Realm mighty figure who had undergone Possession and Rebirth! He could even weakly utilize a trace of the Law of Power!

In this Tidal Palace ruin, with no Nascent Soul Cultivators present, who could kill him?!

Who could kill him!?