Beyond the stone door lay a deep, shadowy passage.
The passage walls rose hundreds of feet high, built from a strange gray-white immortal stone. Their surfaces were smooth as mirrors, covered in an unbroken series of murals, each imbued with Immortal Emperor Dao resonance so dense it was almost tangible.
The instant Li Qingshan stepped into the passage, an aura as vast as a river of stars swept over him, as though an invisible being stood on the far shore of the Time River, watching his every move.
"What rich Immortal Emperor Dao resonance!"
Li Qingshan was shaken to his core.
He looked up, his pupils contracting slightly.
Those murals actually chronicled a single person's life.
The first mural depicted a small mountain village.
A young girl with indistinct features sat on a large rock beside a stream, holding a bamboo scroll in both hands as she studied it with complete concentration.
Behind her, the morning sun had just risen, casting radiant clouds of light that stretched her shadow far, far into the distance.
On the bamboo scroll, the ancient characters for "Primordial True Interpretation" were faintly visible, radiating a hazy Dao resonance.
In the second mural, the girl had grown into a woman. With an ordinary longsword in hand, she battled an ancient savage beast as enormous as a mountain.
The beast roared ferociously, its sharp claws tearing through the void, but the woman moved as nimbly as the wind, her sword light blazing like a rainbow. With one slash, the beast's head flew into the sky.
The scene captured the instant she sheathed her sword, her robes fluttering, her bearing gallant and spirited. Though only her back was visible, she exuded an air of looking down upon the entire world.
The third mural, the fourth, the fifth...
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