Ashen Set, Plotting Reincarnation

This gray fragment was only about half a palm in size and roughly a finger thick. From its appearance, it was almost impossible to tell what kind of Dao artifact it had once belonged to.

Yet after Xuancang Dao Ancestor picked up the fragment, he seemed to recall something.

He sent a wisp of Dao power into the gray fragment. At once, a hazy gray phantom emerged. The phantom was exceedingly indistinct, but one could vaguely make out the shape of a tower.

Although the tower manifested within Sui Zhu Hall was only a little over one zhang tall, the instant it appeared, an aura so faint it was nearly imperceptible, yet possessing an incomparably lofty essence, rippled outward.

The aura vanished in a flash. Immediately afterward, the blurry tower phantom collapsed and disappeared as well.

But Han Yi and the Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao Ancestor were both abruptly startled, for that fleeting aura had filled them with an extreme, terrifying palpitation.

"This—this must be a fragment of a Heavenly Venerable ancient artifact," Han Yi said in a grave voice.

He possessed a God Venerable ancient artifact himself. Back at the Wenren God Clan on Ancestor God Star, he had seen Nangong Hao raise another God Venerable ancient artifact, and outside the Inferno Prison Ruins, he had glimpsed the Third Palace Master of True Saint Palace strike across the void. He was no stranger to the aura of Heavenly Venerables and God Venerables.

Though the aura that had flashed by just now was faint to the extreme, its level was beyond doubt within the domain of Heavenly Venerables.

The phantom within the hall had vanished, but it had also proven that this gray fragment ought to have come from a gray tower, shattered from its body.

"Senior Brother, do you