He had spent a great deal of time gathering materials and working out the structure of this treasure, then poured immense effort into refining it with his own hands. Now it was nearly complete.
The treasure was a pagoda.
Its body was a deep, lustrous shade of green, neither quite jade nor metal, with an indescribably mysterious sheen flowing across its surface.
The pagoda had nine tiers, each with upturned eaves and bracket sets. Tiny wind chimes hung from the corners, ringing with a clear, pleasant sound though no wind stirred.
Every inch of its surface was engraved with dense Great Dao Runes. As though alive, the runes slowly flowed across the pagoda, flickering in and out of sight and radiating a pulse of Dao resonance that made the heart tremble.
The pagoda's grade had already surpassed that of an Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon and entered the realm of Quasi-Immortal Artifacts.
It still fell short of the Evil God Pearl, an Immortal Artifact Chen Xuan had seen, but in the Lower Realm, it was already a treasure that any Emperor Realm cultivator would covet.
This treasure bore no single complete Dao at the level of Dao Perfection.
Each tier carried the resonance of a different Dao. Some held insights into the Pill Dao, others the essence of the Artifact Dao, the secrets of the Formation Dao, or the mysteries of the Talisman Dao.
Together, those Dao resonances formed a magnificent, profound scroll of the Great Dao.
Taken alone, the power of any one of these Daos might not even be as concentrated or as strong as the Dao borne by an Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon.
After all, an Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon bore a complete Dao at the level of Dao Perfection, while each Dao within this pagoda was merely