Emperor Tantai Hongyuan grew even more anxious when he heard Huo Yushen. "Did you ask her about what she went through after returning? Did she find... the Maze Yellow Springs?!"
Huo Yushen nodded. "I did, and I gave her a lie detector test. It confirmed that she was telling the truth."
As he spoke, Huo Yushen handed Emperor Tantai Hongyuan a lie detector report. "Your Majesty, these are the results of the test we just conducted."
"And also..."
As he spoke, he presented Emperor Tantai Hongyuan with the fifth-of-a-fingernail-sized piece of Maze Yellow Springs he had cut off, holding it in both hands.
"Your Majesty, this is a fragment of Maze Yellow Springs that Xia Chujian found in the Country of the Favored after passing through the God Descent Door."
"I tested Xia Chujian. She truly only obtained this one piece of Maze Yellow Springs, and she did not know what it was. I was the one who told her it was Maze Yellow Springs."
Emperor Tantai Hongyuan abruptly rose from the throne behind his desk, strode around it in a few quick steps, and came before Huo Yushen. He practically snatched the fragment from Huo Yushen's hand.
Then he clasped it in his palm, closed his eyes, and sensed the item's energy field.
The instant it touched his hand, he felt an indescribable warm current flowing quietly from the fragment into every limb and bone of his body.
His joints, which had always felt cold and heavy, suddenly seemed to lighten! Emperor Tantai Hongyuan's eyes flew open, his heart filled with indescribable excitement and wild delight.
Ten thousand years. The thing that the Founding Emperor of the Beichen Dynasty had pursued since the very first generation had finally been found by him!
Of course, the function of this Maze