Chapter 256: Advancement
The hidden cave held no wealth beyond counting in gold and jewels, no peerless martial arts manuals coveted throughout the martial world, and no miraculous elixirs capable of advancing one's cultivation.
The entire cave measured only about ten zhang across. From the ceiling hung a small cluster of silver stalactites, shaped like a forest of swords.
Against one wall burned a large bronze lamp, its oil thick as mercury inside the bronze vessel, the flame burning gold and red in a steady blaze, with sparks occasionally leaping upward. It seemed as though the flame would never go out.
Beyond that, the entire cave contained only one thing, a stone stele.
The stele was jet black overall, standing roughly half a zhang tall, set in the center of the cave. Its surface was rough and carved with an inscription.
Li Musheng walked up and stopped before the stele. It appeared somewhat plain at first glance, but according to what the Falling God Peak grandmaster had told him, this stele had an exceptionally mysterious origin, having been passed down from Falling God Peak's founding ancestor.
The story went that the stele had descended from the sky wreathed in divine fire, and had been discovered by chance by that founding ancestor.
Not only did the stele bear an intricate connection to those with divine nature, it was also the true treasure that anchored the entire sect of Falling God Peak.
Li Musheng circled the jet-black stele once. Falling God Peak's successive grandmasters had called it the Divine Talent Stele.