Chapter 1059
While Wu Rong met with the cultivators who had sent calling cards, Tu Shan Jun returned to the banner and continued studying the treasure bestowed by the Azure Emperor.
It was not a tangible treasure, but a map.
A map that lay somewhere between illusion and reality.
This map recorded only one thing, yet it made Tu Shan Jun's expression turn solemn.
Inside the Daoist temple, Tu Shan Jun spread open his palm.
The map immediately appeared.
Holding the map, he walked to the temple entrance and gazed into the distance at the great city hanging in the sky.
That was a world belonging solely to the dead.
Opposite it was another realm, known as the "Shoreless Returning Ruins."
The Returning Ruins Realm could be called the realm of the living. It possessed complete earth, water, fire, and wind, and differed little from the inner heaven and earth within a cultivator's body.
If there was any difference, it was that the Returning Ruins remained a chaos even now. None of its creations could be considered real, nor did spiritual energy arise there or mineral veins spread.
The boundary between life and death was so blurred.
Within the soul banner, he was the unquestioned "god." The sun could rise in the west and set in the east with a single thought. He could travel wherever he wished without obstruction. With one thought, he could carve out a path, fixing space and time at a single point to form a subtle balance.
What this map described was precisely very similar.
Tu Shan Jun clenched the map, his fangs shifting slightly. "Divine Court..."
His gaze flickered faintly.
So long as one mastered this precious map, one could swiftly travel back and forth between the world of the living and the underworld,