Deep within Solemn Cloud Mountain, inside a temporary cave Han Yi had carved out, a massive Divine Stone the size of a small mountain floated within a spatial container above his palm.
This Divine Stone had a shape with one thousand and twenty-four faces. It was the highest-quality Cangyun Divine Stone Han Yi had ever learned of.
Yet what caught Han Yi's attention was not the Divine Stone itself, but a Dao Embryo frozen within its center like amber.
This Dao Embryo was the Cangyun Divine Core.
Moreover.
What shocked Han Yi was that this Dao Embryo did not possess the attribute of life. In other words, even if this Cangyun Divine Stone were allowed to remain forever, the Divine Core within it could never give birth to consciousness and take form.
In the Dao Spirit Chaos Realm, many strange things could take form, each more bizarre than the last. Even space, the Heavenly Dao, and world consciousness could take form and become Dao.
But with Han Yi's current level, he could tell at a glance that this Dao Embryo did not possess such a trait. There was not even the faintest possibility of it.
That left only one possibility: this Dao Embryo had been prepared for someone else.
Whoever obtained the Dao Embryo could refine it into an avatar.
And judging by the quality of the Divine Stone and Divine Core, an avatar refined from them would certainly possess exceptional talent and tremendous potential.
Han Yi recalled how Yellow Springs Realm Venerable had once obtained a Divine Core, then never returned to the Dao Spirit Realm, leaving behind no trace whatsoever.
Perhaps an enormous secret lay within this.
Han Yi temporarily set aside the enormous Divine Stone and Divine Core inside the spatial container, his heart growing heavy.
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