Light and shadow flowed as time and space shifted. It seemed like only an instant had passed, yet it also felt as though they had traveled for ages.
The moment Zuoqiu Qingyu and Li Qingchan felt solid ground beneath their feet, a wave of heaven and earth energy utterly different from that of Cangxuan Heaven rushed toward them. It was not more majestic, yet it felt far more lively and active, as though brimming with vigorous life and easier to absorb and refine. The air carried a faint floral fragrance and the fresh scent of grass and trees, soothing their hearts and minds.
"The heaven and earth energy here... is so peculiar!" Surprise was impossible to hide in Li Qingchan's cool eyes as she carefully sensed it. "It isn't as dense and majestic as Cangxuan Heaven's, but it is purer and more vibrant, as though... it is closer to the origin of life itself."
She could even feel that the bottleneck holding her at the early Divine Mansion Realm showed faint signs of loosening under the nourishment of this spiritual energy.
Zuoqiu Qingyu also took a deep breath. A look of bliss appeared on her seductive face as she stretched her graceful waist, feeling the spiritual energy brush across her skin like gentle hands. "Yes. I feel so much lighter, as if a thousand-pound burden has been lifted from me. Cultivating here would surely yield twice the result with half the effort."
Once they focused their eyes, they discovered that they were inside a magnificent yet exquisite palace. Its style was entirely different from the architecture of Cangxuan Heaven, less solemn and imposing, yet more natural and spiritually elegant.
The ceiling was not entirely enclosed, but constructed from some transparent crystal through which the brilliant starry sky outside could be