The Nine Cauldrons appeared, dragon and phoenix united, and a breakthrough to Half-Step Great Luo!

Palace halls stretched in endless rows, alongside towering platforms and sacrificial altars.

Bronze Puppets, spirit herbs, and treasured artifacts.

Even soaring streams of Purple Tenuity Human Emperor aura flashed into view beside Li Beichen, one after another, yet he never stopped walking.

Fine as these things were, with opportunities hidden among them, they were not the purpose of his journey.

Li Beichen had only one thing on his mind: finding the remaining three of the Nine Cauldrons.

Finally, after crossing ruins that stretched for tens of thousands of miles, an enormous hill appeared in his sight.

At its summit burned an undying mass of Phoenix Truefire. Its crimson-gold flames flickered quietly in the void, like an ancient lamp that had never gone out.

Countless enormous stone statues of ancient ancestors knelt on one knee toward the center in solemn worship, as though performing a ritual that spanned countless ages.

Within the central flames, a great cauldron floated quietly, the patterns on its body appearing and disappearing in the firelight.

The instant he saw it, Li Beichen's eyes lit up, and he immediately sent a message through his mind.

"I found one of the Nine Cauldrons!"

Then he sprang forward, hurtling toward the summit.

At the same moment Li Beichen discovered the great cauldron on the hill, Zhang Shou stood within an underground palace.

Using the divination power of the River Diagram and Luo Scripture, he had passed through layer upon layer of ancient sacrificial altars to find a vast underground palace tens of thousands of miles beneath the surface.

This underground palace was practically another world.

Mountains and rivers spread across it, and stars arrayed themselves overhead.

The sun and moon revolved within it, and the four seasons turned in succession.

It was as though an entire realm had been