Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Just as Venerable Miaodi took action to suppress the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Sword Profound Sect, the fluctuations in energy generated by the battle between the two sides were immediately sensed by several other supreme experts from the Eastern Profound Continent.

The Imperial Palace of the Great Xia Dynasty, the Imperial Garden.

Xia Jin was leaning back in the armchair, comfortably basking in the sun, and occasionally glancing at the temple token in her hand.

Suddenly, he paused, his brows furrowed slightly, and his gaze turned toward the Western Regions.

"Husband, what's wrong?" Leng Yuexi, who was focused on making tea, noticed Xia Jin's unusual behavior, put down the teapot, and walked behind him.

A pair of delicate hands rested on Xia Jin's shoulders, gently massaging them, but a hint of doubt flashed across her face.

Xia Jin did not answer immediately, as if she was thinking about something.

After a long while, he finally withdrew his gaze, gently patted Leng Yuexi's hand, and said with a hint of amusement in his tone, "I never expected that the Western Regions, which I thought were barren, would have such an extraordinary figure... emerge this time."

"The Western Regions? Could they be Buddhist monks?" Leng Yuexi looked at Xia Jin, then suddenly smiled and teased, "Oh? Husband, that remarkable person you're talking about... could they be even stronger than you?"

"What do you think?!" Xia Jin also smiled.

Since, with the system's help, she crossed the threshold of the Land Immortal Realm and stepped into the higher Divine Realm, Xia Jin had absolute confidence in her current strength.

Leng Yuexi, standing behind Xia Jin, understood Xia Jin's meaning even though Xia Jin didn't say it explicitly.

It seems that no matter who appears on this Eastern Xuan Continent, her husband is still at the very top.

At the same time, on an island reef overseas in the Eastern Region.

A middle-aged man with disheveled hair also suddenly opened his eyes the instant the aura of the Venerable Miaodi appeared.

His gaze seemed to traverse the boundless sea, landing directly on the Western Regions, in the direction of Kasyapa Temple.

"This aura... is profound." The man murmured to himself, his expression revealing no emotion. "After a thousand years of silence, it seems you have awakened as well."

But then, as the sea breeze, carrying some salty seawater, dripped onto his face, a smile appeared on his face.

"Even you have returned from oblivion... then those who slept with you back then will probably wake up one by one soon."

As he spoke, he slowly opened his left hand, which had been loosely clenched.

In the palm of his hand lay a jade pendant exactly like the temple token in Xia Jin's hand.

In the southern region, above the endless jungle.

The fourth elder of the Heavenly Sword Profound Sect was riding his sword light, looking down at the miasma that kept rising into the sky.

Suddenly, his figure stopped in mid-air.

"Strange, after the Second Elder and Third Elder's auras disappeared, why can't we sense the First Elder's aura anymore?" The Fourth Elder frowned, a hint of suspicion on his face.

"Could it be that this miasma is limiting my perception?"

The Fourth Elder never doubted the safety of the other three elders of the Heavenly Sword Profound Sect. After all, in his view, how could such a barren place as the Eastern Profound Continent possibly harbor anything that could threaten them?

However, he probably didn't realize that his sudden stop had attracted the attention of someone below.

Below, in the dense jungle, miasma filled the air, obscuring the view within ten meters.

In this very corner, a solitary grave suddenly trembled slightly.

A withered hand emerged from the earth! Then came another hand.

A gaunt figure stiffly sat up from the coffin, and after regaining his composure, climbed out.

He turned his stiff neck, his gaze sweeping blankly across his surroundings.

"Gurgle... gurgle..." A strange sound came from his shrunken stomach.

"For thousands of years... I haven't eaten... I'm hungry."

He subconsciously raised his head, as if looking for something.

The midday sun was a bit too bright, and he instinctively squinted.

But then they suddenly discovered the Heavenly Sword Profound Sect's Fourth Elder, who was suspended in the void!

He couldn't help but let out a dry laugh.

"This... aura... not bad... blood food!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a whirlwind suddenly swept up the fallen leaves piled up near the coffin.

The gaunt figure had vanished into thin air.

……

In the void, the Fourth Elder shook his head, realizing that he had been too suspicious.

Without giving it any further thought, he channeled his spiritual energy and prepared to continue speeding southward.

But at this moment,

The Fourth Elder suddenly felt a sharp pain in his neck!

"What is that?!"

The Fourth Elder immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye.

As a result, he saw a head!

A head pressed tightly against his shoulder and neck!

A gaping mouth was biting his neck.

And those eyes, so close to his, were also fixed on him, their gaze filled with greed.

"You bastard! What are you?! What do you want?!"

The excruciating pain instantly ignited the Fourth Elder's fury.

Without holding back, he slammed his right palm down with all his might on the head! He was determined to smash the head into dust.

However, before his right palm could land, he froze in mid-air!

A soft sound was heard coming from his chest.

A withered hand had somehow pierced through his chest!

That hand grasped the throbbing heart inside the chest cavity, and then, the five fingers suddenly closed!

The next moment, that hand, which had been clutching his heart, slowly withdrew.

"Monster! You... monster!" The Fourth Elder felt his consciousness begin to dissipate.

That gaunt figure seemed to completely ignore the Fourth Elder's venomous gaze before his death, bringing the bloodied heart to his lips, and then...

He swallowed it in one gulp!

"Gulp." The sound of swallowing was unusually clear in the deathly silence.

"The taste of fresh blood! So good...it tastes amazing." The gaunt figure let out a satisfied groan after swallowing the heart.

Then, he opened his mouth again and took a deep breath at the remains of the Fourth Elder, which were right in front of him!

"call!"

An invisible, terrifying suction force erupted!

The Fourth Elder's once full body rapidly withered, and the essence of his flesh and blood transformed into a stream of air that surged wildly into the mouth of the emaciated figure.

In just a few breaths, the Fourth Elder was completely turned into a dried-up corpse and then fell directly from the sky.

After absorbing all of the Fourth Elder's essence and blood, the emaciated figure, which had originally resembled a skeleton, visibly swelled up slightly.

"Even the original body has awakened, it seems... those old friends should be about the same."