Spirit Valley, Golden Lake

Though Spirit Valley was not an ancient imperial clan with an ancient emperor having emerged from it, it was still one of the most renowned Royal Clans among the ancient races, ruling over countless mountains and rivers and commanding innumerable subjects.

They specialized in cultivating the Primordial Spirit, refining their own divine beings. That was how Spirit Valley got its name.

The physical body was merely a waystation. Once cultivation reached perfection, one could abandon the fleshly shell and walk the world in the body of a divine being, possessing boundless magical power and vast divine abilities.

This ancient Royal Clan controlled a supreme treasure known as the Spirit Lake.

The Spirit Lake was golden throughout, crystalline and translucent. Though called a lake, it was in truth a sea.

Before passing away, the ancestral kings of Spirit Valley throughout the generations would all choose to return to their Ancestral Land and merge their divine bodies into the golden lake. Only through the accumulation of generation after generation had this supreme treasure been forged.

The divine power within it was incomparably vast, making it an ultimate treasure for those who cultivated the Primordial Spirit.

Compared to the Soul Pool left behind after the Undying Emperor's Primordial Spirit transformed—one of the world's three great wonders—Spirit Valley's golden lake was like a diminished Soul Pool.

Ancient Emperor Wang Teng had ventured deep into the Great Wilderness of the Eastern Wasteland and obtained one of the Nine Secrets that specialized in cultivating the Primordial Spirit.

He had deliberately sought friendly relations with Spirit Valley because he intended to borrow the ancient Royal Clan's supreme treasure and push the Future Word Secret to perfection.

However, aside from the ancestral kings of each generation, only young kings like Zi Tiandu and Zi Tianfeng—the direct descendants of