Chapter 555: Finally, They Meet
Once the doors opened, Aldrian was greeted by a grand, luxurious hall. He looked around and thought that nothing had changed compared to his visions. Even the smallest details were positioned exactly the same. He remembered that he sometimes interacted with his followers here—Feng Xuanyan, Long Shentian, and a few others.
Even when they were still young and not yet powerful, they had already been visiting this place to meet with him and discuss many things.
His eyes turned nostalgic as he walked in, moving deeper into the palace. He knew the palace’s structure, and it seemed he already understood where the second calling was coming from. He passed through many hallways and beautiful gardens inside the palace as he walked slowly. He couldn’t help but reminisce about the past with his followers in every part of the palace he passed.
He kept walking, following the second calling until he reached a chamber with another set of double doors. Aldrian raised his eyebrows—this one was much different from what he remembered. In his memory, there was no such chamber. And the doors, the very place he sensed the second call from, had never existed in his past life.
Did Feng Xuanyan and Long Shentian make a few changes? It seemed so.
It looked like his prediction was wrong. He had thought the second call came from a place he already knew, but now it appeared to be from somewhere new—hidden beneath the palace.
He opened the doors and found a wide staircase leading downward to an underground area. There was no darkness here. The illumination crystals lining both sides of the walls bathed the entire path in light.
Aldrian continued to walk, and each time he descended the stairs, his heart beat a little faster. Ever since entering the core area of the forest, he had been anticipating his meeting with Feng Xuanyan and Long Shentian. There were many things he wanted to talk about—and quietly, he missed them.
However, he had already prepared for the worst. The first vision he received from the calling had shown a giant golden bone. He had prepared himself for the possibility that they were already—
Aldrian bit his lip slightly as he imagined the worst, but he kept walking. After more than ten minutes, he finally reached another pair of doors. He stopped in front of them for a moment, inhaled deeply, then opened the doors to see what lay inside.
The interior was a vast hall, so immense he felt like an ant within it. This was the same hall he had seen in his vision when the golden bone first appeared. It had also appeared in the vision he saw when he looked into the memory of the Heavenly Scarf of the Divine Phoenix.