The sun rose and set, the clouds rolled and unfurled, and twenty years passed before anyone knew it.
Within the Five Elements Dongtian, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged atop an auspicious cloud. Great Dao Golden Beads hovered around him one after another, each blooming with a faint radiance.
After who knew how long, one Great Dao Golden Bead suddenly drifted slowly before him. Zhao Sheng opened his eyes and reached out, tapping a finger onto the golden bead. A wisp of auspicious light instantly poured from his fingertip into the bead.
Buzz!
The Great Dao Golden Bead suddenly let out a hum, then transformed into a streak of golden light. In the blink of an eye, it pierced through the sea of clouds and flew off to parts unknown.
In the southeast of Yu Province lay a range of rolling hills. On this day, a streak of golden light abruptly descended from the heavens and smashed like lightning into one of the hills, vanishing without a trace.
Yet deep within that hill, a vast, open stone cave soon formed. Above the stone cave, a fist-sized golden bead quietly hovered, giving off bright light that illuminated the dim cavern.
As time passed, an immense amount of earth-element spiritual energy was drawn from deep within the earth's crust into this stone cave. At first, it was great swaths of dense, dripping mist; then, gradually, a pool of milky-white spiritual water appeared on the ground.
At the same time, the four walls of the stone cave quietly filled with densely packed ancient spirit runes. If someone of profound cultivation were to see the spirit runes on the cave walls, they would surely be deeply shaken.
This was because the spirit runes on the cave walls were, astonishingly, an extremely rare earth-element divine ability and