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"What is that!"

The four stared at the pavilion in the middle of the lake, their hearts shaking with shock.

The octagonal pavilion had been built from seven-colored crystal.

The strings of beads hanging from its corners were made of thumb-sized luminous pearls. Their glow mingled with the lake water, illuminating the entire space like a dream.

"This—this is where immortals live, isn't it?"

Fu Chao's jaw nearly hit the ground. The jar in his hand clattered onto the ground by his feet, but he didn't even notice the pain. "Just one of those luminous pearls could be exchanged for a huge number of Spirit Stones!"

He wasn't exaggerating!

These "luminous pearls" weren't ordinary beads!

They did more than simply glow!

They were genuine treasures!

If an Artifact Refining Grandmaster got their hands on them, they might even be able to refine them into a set of bead-type magical treasures!

Yu Yunyi's fingertips trembled slightly. "I once read in the sect's ancient records that powerful cultivators in antiquity used Heaven-Mending Colored Crystals to construct their caves. I never thought I'd see one with my own eyes today..."

"Look at the pavilion's eight corners!"

Li Yunjing's pupils contracted slightly. Pointing ahead, he continued, "Those luminous pearls aren't mere decorations. They must correspond to an Eight Trigrams formation!"

He released his divine sense, but it sank like a stone into the sea. The Crystal Pavilion seemed to form a world of its own, swallowing up his probing power.

"Fish! Transparent fish! And they glow!"

Fu Chao suddenly sucked in a sharp breath and cried out, pointing at the lake.

A school of crystalline spirit fish swam past. As their fins moved, they dragged ribbons of light like a river of stars, and the lake water parted in their wake, forming trails shaped