The keychain ornament was divided into two parts. One was something resembling a disc, while the other looked like a miniature rockery.
Upon closer inspection, the disc-like object was actually composed of three discs of different sizes. It was simply too small to make out its layered structure.
The whole thing was only about the size of an adult's fingernail. It looked like an ordinary piece of art, covered in tiny patterns that seemed to have been caused by wear and tear. They appeared to have no discernible order.
The more Li Changshou examined it, the more familiar it felt, as though he had seen it somewhere before.
Soon, the scene he had witnessed in the starry sky while he was distracted flashed through his mind.
Above the sea of stars, the yellow divine ox, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, and the red True Dragon had surrounded that Mysterious Altar. Wasn't it exactly what the disc hanging from his keychain would look like if magnified?
In an instant, Li Changshou's mind shook violently. Could those scenes not have been hallucinations after all? Could three God-like and Demon-like beings really have worshipped at an altar above the sea of stars before the Eternal Years?
After countless years, the scene of that ritual had finally crossed the barrier of the universe and projected itself onto Earth, where he had happened to capture it.
Those three Extraordinary Humans, covered in blood from their desperate battle, had not come to the desert to duel simply because they had nothing better to do. Instead, they had calculated the workings of fate and were waiting for some divine object to descend from beyond the heavens.
But that still failed to explain why an ornament had suddenly appeared on his keychain.
After temporarily setting aside the various