Lingshan Reveals Itself

The moment the Heartfall Flame was brought forth, the five elemental spiritual objects trembled in unison. In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains quaked, and the sky darkened completely.

Xu Chunniang's heart hammered. Was Lingshan about to appear?

No sooner had the thought crossed her mind than she felt her body sinking without end, as though she had fallen into a bottomless abyss.

Alarmed, she hastily tried to steady herself with spiritual energy, only to find her body utterly empty—not a thread of spiritual energy remained.

When she released her divine sense, all she detected was endless emptiness.

Xu Chunniang steadied herself and forced herself to calm down.

The change had occurred only after the five elemental spiritual objects gathered. According to the verse, Lingshan might already have appeared.

Unable to control herself at the moment, she surmised that Lingshan was perhaps deep beneath the earth.

Having figured this out, she felt somewhat calmer and allowed herself to continue falling.

After sinking through the darkness for an unknown length of time, a sliver of light suddenly broke into Xu Chunniang's sight.

Sensing that the spiritual energy in her dantian had returned and that the spiritual objects she had brought forth had reentered her body, she hurriedly steadied herself and looked around.

Before her lay an utterly unfamiliar scene, bleak and desolate, carrying an air of vast, ancient barrenness.

Not far away, Master Liao Zhi's figure gradually emerged.

He swept his gaze across the surroundings, strange light flashing in his eyes. Pressing his palms together, he uttered a Buddhist invocation.

"I suppose this is the Lingshan spoken of by the first-generation abbot.

Yet this Lingshan possesses none of the fabled spiritual beauty. Instead, its vitality is feeble, and it bears an air of ruin and incompleteness."

Xu Chunniang extended