Deep beneath the Congyun Sea, at the convergence of several major earth veins, the power of the earth veins surged and roiled with unusual violence.

Li Fan harnessed this power to set up the Earthfire Elevation Array and placed the dormant Tian Yang at its center.

One by one, he fed materials into the array: Eternal Calamity Gold, Vast Heaven Crystal Stone, Violet Spirit Crystal Marrow, and many others. Like a massive furnace, the blazing earthfire power slowly smelted these materials into Tian Yang's puppet body.

It was this very array that had sustained Tian Yang through his long slumber, allowing him to shatter his own limits and advance from Foundation Establishment all the way to Spirit Transformation. 

Yet the Embodiment Transformation Dao Sect of that era had been an relatively...