Sunlight streamed through glazed glass into the magnificent, resplendent hall, casting a kaleidoscope of colors.
Exquisite murals had been carved upon the lofty vault of the palace: strong experts summoning wind and rain, great demons straddling mountains and seas, blades and swords, blood and fire adorning the scenes, as if recounting glimmers of glory from the Human Race's Founding War in the Eastern Wasteland.
Only at the very center was there a blank expanse, as though deliberately left empty, yet also as though waiting for new content to fill it.
Luo Chen stood quietly in the hall, his gaze blazing as he surveyed everything around him.
He had never known that such a place existed within Soaring Sky Pass.
Had the Soaring Sky City Lord not personally brought him here, he likely would have found it difficult to enter this Heaven Water Hall even in his lifetime.
And this was the residence of Black Marsh Old Ancestor, one of the three great ancestors of the Mingyuan Sect!
Luo Chen had once asked the Soaring Sky City Lord face-to-face how Soaring Sky Pass would withstand Demon Emperor Qing Shuang if she joined the war.
The other party had answered bluntly, "I'm only afraid she won't come!"
At the time, Luo Chen had not known where the Soaring Sky City Lord's confidence came from.
Later, after witnessing the Black Tortoise Four Directions Array, he had thought that was the Soaring Sky City Lord's source of confidence.
But when the Black Tortoise Four Directions Array had been forcibly broken by the massive Beast Tide and the combined assault of the five great commanders, he understood that the grand array might not be able to stop Demon Emperor Qing Shuang—at the very least, it could not keep her there!
Now, Luo Chen finally understood