Atop the solitary mountain.
Through his spiritual sense, Chen Yan had already ascertained the mountain's true nature. It was a palace where the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch had stayed temporarily during his visit to the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent forty million years ago.
Tiles like the one he held in his hand lay hidden beneath this mountain in numbers far beyond the millions.
Yet even that single tile in Chen Yan's hand would still constitute an extraordinary opportunity for the vast majority of Immortal Cultivators in this world.
For obscure runes sharing the same origin as the Purple Mansion Record were inscribed upon it.
If an Immortal Cultivator possessed exceptional comprehension, much like Shen Xuanwei of the Kunwu Continent back then, even a single rune like this would most likely allow them to glean a great deal.
Chen Yan slowly rose to his feet and withdrew his spiritual sense from the solitary mountain beneath him... or rather, from the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch's palace of forty million years ago.
He had always understood one thing very clearly.
No matter when, the initiative had always rested in the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch's own hands.
Whether or not to meet him was entirely the other party's decision.
Just as it had been two hundred years ago, when the Supreme Saint of Heaven Stabilizing and the Devouring Desolation Demon Sage fought over heaven and earth authority.
But now...
Chen Yan hesitated no longer. He began mobilizing the clear immortal qi within his qi sea.
An Immortal Cultivator's qi sea was divided into three stages.
The true qi sea, the spiritual qi sea, and the immortal qi sea.
True qi was a kind of "inferior" spiritual qi that an Immortal Cultivator refined through their cultivation method or generated through a martial spring before condensing their natal