He walked deeper into the cave, and the damp rock walls gradually swallowed the last trace of light.
He did not know how long he had walked. The sound of his boots crushing gravel was especially clear in the silence.
Suddenly, a faint glimmer shone through a crack in the rocks ahead.
Gavin quickened his pace and headed toward the light.
He squeezed sideways through a narrow crevice, and in an instant, his view opened up dramatically.
Brushing the dust from his sleeves, Gavin looked around and was astonished to find himself standing before a palace.
Weathered stone pillars rose high overhead, their surfaces covered in dark blue moss. Countless vine-like plants hung from the ceiling above, radiating a faint golden glow that illuminated the entire underground cavern.
Filled with doubt, Gavin cautiously made his way into the palace.
From what he could tell, this place had existed for at least a thousand years.
Unless something unexpected had happened, it should have been ruins left behind by the previous kingdom. He just did not know why it had been buried here.
Above the palace, Velin shifted his gaze away from Gavin and looked toward the black-covered book he had placed in the deepest part of the palace.
The Radiant Sun Breathing Technique was the first Legendary Grade Warrior Breathing Method he had created using the Soul Skill Reincarnation—Reality. It had undergone one hundred and thirty-eight revisions.
As for its cultivation effects, he had only tested it in the illusion, and he was the only one who had cultivated it.
This was a rare opportunity to send it in and observe the effects of this outsider's cultivation, obtaining the data he wanted.
Under the pressure of repeated life-and-death crises, Gavin had already proven that he possessed the potential of a protagonist.