Weiyang Palace!

["Senior."]

[You called out in your sea of consciousness.]

[Chen Xuanji came back to his senses.]

[The phantom of his remnant soul flickered faintly, like a lamp about to go out.]

[His phantom slowly turned away, putting his back to you.]

["Perhaps the time has come."]

[He repeated those words.]

[Then he drew a deep breath.]

[Even though a remnant soul had no need to breathe.]

[You noticed that detail.]

[For a Great Emperor's remnant soul to make such an unconscious gesture, what he was about to say had to carry considerable weight.]

[You immediately realized that the objective of this campaign was anything but simple.]

["Young friend, do you know what the Taiyuan Old Domain was originally called?"]

[You shook your head.]

["No."]

[Chen Xuanji turned back, an extraordinarily complex expression appearing on his phantom face.]

[Awe.]

[Grief.]

[And a trace of something you had never seen in him before.]

[Fervor.]

["The full name of the Taiyuan Old Domain is—the Weiyang Domain!"]

[The moment he spoke the name Weiyang,]

[Your pupils contracted.]

[Weiyang.]

[The same name as the Weiyang Immortal Domain.]

["Your reaction tells me you've already guessed part of it."]

[Chen Xuanji nodded.]

["That's right."]

["The Weiyang Immortal Domain was named Weiyang because of that place."]

["The Taiyuan Old Domain is where the Human Emperor's Weiyang Palace stands."]

[The Human Emperor.]

[Weiyang Palace.]

[You could weigh the significance of those two names together.]

[In all the years since you had arrived in the Great Thousand Worlds, you had heard about the Human Emperor more than once.]

[Naturally, you knew what kind of existence the Human Emperor was.]

[Even someone as powerful as the Peerless War King was merely one of his subordinates.]

[He was an existence who stood above all living beings.]

["What cultivation realm is the Human