Within the vast Library Pavilion.
Only nine gray stone tablets hovered in midair here, radiating an endlessly ancient aura.
Each gray stone tablet exuded an indescribable aura, utterly different from that of an origin great dao, yet even vaster, loftier, and more majestic.
"Is this the aura of the Half-step Transcendence grade?"
Li Yue murmured to himself. Standing before the nine gray stone tablets, he felt a smallness that welled up from deep within his heart.
Vaguely, he felt like a person inside a painting who had glimpsed something outside it.
However powerful a person inside a painting might be, he was still only a person inside a painting.
If the painting were torn apart, the person within would naturally be smashed to pieces.
Even standing at the very ceiling of the painting, he still could not resist the force tearing it apart from outside.
Only by transcending that painting could he resist the force that would tear it apart!
And now.
As he gazed at the nine gray stone tablets before him, it was as though he had glimpsed threads of mighty power from beyond the painting.
"Even within the Gray Valley Ark, there are only these nine King-grade Inheritances."
"Every one of them leads straight to the Half-step Transcendence grade."
His eyes shone as he looked toward the leftmost gray stone tablet.
At once—
His vision blurred, and he saw a towering figure almost a third as tall as the Onefold Dimension!
The towering figure stood amid endless darkness, yet boundless radiance blazed around him. Dusky gray scales covered his body, and his cold, long tail swayed gently like a steel whip.
His eyes were lightly closed, and three terrifying gray horns on his forehead pointed straight toward the heavens.
Four arms hung naturally at his sides, while