Prelude

Within Shihui Peak's seclusion chamber, dust motes drifted lightly in the moonlight reflected by a bright mirror. At the center of a jade casket glowing with cyan radiance lay a scripture written upon golden leaves. The Golden Leaf Dao Scripture shimmered with light, immaculate and free of dust. Streams of silver light flickered across it, extending along the book's patterns and the veins of the golden leaves, ultimately sketching the faint outlines of ancient Dao script.

[ Miro Heavenly Dao Surveillance Record ]

Miro meant to fill the vault of heaven. Miro Heaven was the Supreme Miro Heaven, the highest of heavens, able to overlook Myriad Phenomena and layer upon layer of celestial heavens.

This scripture was called the "Miro Heavenly Dao Surveillance Record." If its name was no falsehood, then it ought to be a record kept by Miro Heaven while overseeing all Daos. Though it was not a cultivation scripture, it must contain numerous techniques and perhaps even Supernatural Abilities for surveilling the Dao. Its value was beyond imagination; it was undoubtedly one of the inheritances of the great Dao.

Observe the heavens and inspect the earth, supervise gods and watch over the Dao.

Patrol the sun and moon above, survey all living beings below.

The master of the seclusion chamber, Miao Yunying, silently picked up the Golden Leaf Dao Scripture. His calm gaze read over the scripture's title. No one but him could understand this record, which had descended upon Huaixu alongside his swaddling clothes. Even he himself had initially been completely unable to grasp the meaning of the great Dao patterns upon it.

Until one day... on the most utterly ordinary day of Miao Yunying's life, he suddenly understood.

And he understood the rules governing the inheritance of this Golden Leaf Scripture as well.

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