Divine Saber Transformation

One man entered the hidden door opened within the bronze wall. Beyond it lay a long passage, somewhat like a modern underground plaza. Its walls, floor, and ceiling were all cast from a pale golden ore that shone with its own golden radiance, making the passage quite bright.

Though Xiang Yang walked forward calmly, he remained secretly alert to any danger that might appear. Fortunately, nothing happened along the way. At last, following the passage, he arrived at a cave-like chamber and emerged from an angled passageway.

The space was roughly twenty square meters in size, its four stone walls polished smooth and round, like mirrors.

At the center stood a circular stone table. A pearl the size of a fist rested on a foot-high tray, giving off moonlike light that illuminated the stone cave and reflected from all four walls, making one feel as though they had stepped from reality into myth.

If it had merely been a luminous pearl, it would not have been particularly rare. What was strange was the layers of milky-white mist floating around it, condensed yet unscattered, slowly drawing back into the pearl. Xiang Yang's pupils contracted. Spiritual qi liquefied?

"Chunan had a pearl called Night Flower. Its quality and beauty were beyond adornment by any object. Could this be the Night Flower Pearl?"

The Great Gan Dynasty had risen in place of Chu in the previous dynasty, and so many years had passed that countless people and events had already been lost to time. Yet certain miscellanies and accounts of craftsmanship had been passed down through the generations, and the Night Flower Pearl was one of them.

Legend had it that the Night Flower Pearl grew in the mountains south of Great Chu. It was a woody burl on the roots of a