A world, a Blood River.
Lycoris Radiata along the riverbank.
The river murmured on, ripples swaying.
A grotesque fish wagged its serpent tail and swam upstream.
Whenever it reached a certain point, the "strange fish" leaped with all its strength and vanished amid the ripples. Before long, it would surface again in the same posture, without any warning.
"In my current state of existence, I can freely travel between both worlds...
"The exit locations are all in Yi Xing Town, where I entered. There's barely any deviation—rather convenient..."
Liang Qu recalled the Yin Yang Five Elements Disk. Whenever he swung the Yin Yang Five Elements Disk, there was a peculiar "water resistance." To open the dynasty, one likewise had to find a suitable "spatial node," fit into it, and twist it open like a key.
If not for the Five Elements Disk being in the Imperial Capital's Treasure Vault rather than at his side, he would definitely have tried it, to see whether the Five Elements Disk's "nodes" were the same thing as the auroras he had observed.
If they truly were one and the same, it would almost immediately prove that he had arrived in the "Dream Realm Dynasty," Grand Ancestor Da Li's man-made Netherworld!
Black Emperor's Gaze...
Mastery over the transformations of yin and yang...
It truly gave him a strange sense of déjà vu—like the Great Sage returning to Flower-Fruit Mountain, getting blind drunk and collapsing atop a rock, only to let soul-reaping envoys hook his soul and take him to the Netherworld!
As he rode past, taking in the sights, everything was new and wondrous.
Mist drifted hazily over the Blood River.
His nostrils filled with the fragrance of flowers and the muddy scent of river water.
This entire "underworld" was not as oppressive and gloomy