Night rain fell endlessly outside the teahouse. Under the streetlamps, it reflected off the slick, wet ground. In the distance, illusions of immortal mountains and auspicious clouds drifted above the towering buildings, impossible to distinguish from reality. Spirit cranes, equally difficult to tell from the real thing, danced gracefully between the neon lights and rain clouds, while elaborately decorated flower boats slowly flew between the buildings. Elegant melodies played on traditional instruments drifted through the rain. Separated from this distant alien-world cityscape by the hazy Light Screen along the edge of the awning, it looked both vivid and remote.
The black-robed cultivator held a cup of hot tea, never noticing that it had sat on the table for a long time without cooling in the slightest. In a daze, he recalled and pondered things, answering one question after another posed by True Spirit Yuanling.
"...We don't know who that 'enemy' is. Our benefactor said it had left, but sometimes he would suddenly fly into a rage, saying that thing was always lurking nearby, hiding in the shadows of the stars, hiding among the orbits of the countless heavenly bodies. He said the people of this world were foolish, always failing to see the danger right before their eyes...
"Emperor's Legacy... is hidden in a very deep place. You have to pass through layer upon layer of illusion to reach it. You can't get there directly from the real world, but there are many rifts in the real world that lead to those depths. Taiyou? Yes, it's there in Taiyou. It's also on the Great Void Spiritual Pivot. There are some on the two stars Han Guang and Han Ding as well, but the passages over there aren't very stable.
"Yes, they're scattered throughout the entire Feather Star Domain..."
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