Outside the hall, Su Yi glanced at the red-robed, lotus-crowned man before walking straight inside.
"Sit."
The red-robed, lotus-crowned man sat down first, lifted the wine jug, and poured a cup each for himself and Su Yi.
At once, a crisp, rich fragrance of wine spread through the air, refreshing the heart and mind.
Su Yi paid it no heed. He walked to one side of the hall and examined the wall.
Seeing this, the red-robed, lotus-crowned man paused, then smiled indifferently. Rising from his seat, he walked over to Su Yi's side.
"Thirty-six Ascension to Immortality Diagrams have been drawn upon these walls using secret immortal Dao patterns. Every one of them is deeply profound. Unfortunately... most are already badly damaged, stripped of their spirit and vitality."
The red-robed, lotus-crowned man spoke softly. "Take the one you are looking at now. Though blurry, after years of deduction, I finally concluded that the ferocious bird within it is the divine bird Bi Fang. It bathed in lightning tribulation, struck across the Heavenly Gate, and ultimately ascended amid radiant clouds, shedding its mortal form to become immortal."
Indeed, a vague and incomplete image of a divine bird was painted on the wall. It spread its wings high in the azure heavens, its entire body bathed in the Immortal Light of lightning tribulation.
Above the divine bird stretched a hazy Dao Path. At its end loomed a mysterious gate.
The painting was broken and blurred, with many parts already collapsed and faded away.
Yet upon close inspection, just as the red-robed, lotus-crowned man had said, the divine bird bore an uncanny resemblance to the peerless divine avian Bi Fang!
After briefly studying it, Su Yi walked along the wall and came to the second image.
"This Ascension to Immortality Diagram depicts a