Chapter 703: Tempering
Chen Qing stood beneath that horizontal plaque, gazing up at those four large characters, the shock churning within him taking a long while to settle.
A mustard seed containing Mount Sumeru, a snail shell holding a cultivation ground. Within this single grain of sand lay hidden a water palace of such magnificent scale. A feat like this had already surpassed everything he had previously understood about the arts of the Dao.
"According to the records in the ancient texts, the Verdant Radiance Star Sovereign has already fallen."
Chen Qing stood before the stone gate, his thoughts racing, "But his death was extraordinarily mysterious, as though he simply vanished without a trace. No one ever obtained his inheritance or his treasures. Could it be that this place is his inheritance ground?"
The Dao Court had five great Star Sovereigns, the topmost tier of experts beneath the Dao Lord. A figure of that standing, should he ever meet with misfortune, how could he possibly fail to leave behind some contingency plan?
With that kind of world-spanning ability, arranging matters before death and leaving behind an inheritance of one's own Dao tradition should not have been any great difficulty.
This Verdant Radiance Water Palace might well be the Verdant Radiance Star Sovereign's final arrangement before his fall.
Chen Qing drew a deep breath and stepped through that ten-zhang-tall blue-cyan stone gate.
The instant he crossed the threshold, the entire water palace surfaced with radiance of the utmost splendor.