"Third Heaven of the Golden Core Realm! I did it!"
Li Yunjing let out a long cry, and a ring of spiritual energy erupted around him, shaking the walls of the Seclusion Chamber until spiderweb cracks spread across them.
He examined his dantian and saw that his golden core had grown from the size of a pigeon's egg to the size of a fist. Three golden markings gleamed brilliantly on its surface!
Even more astonishingly, he discovered that his sensitivity to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had increased more than tenfold.
"Huh?"
Just as he was rejoicing, he suddenly sensed something unusual deep within his golden core.
He sent his divine sense inside and discovered a tiny rune at its heart, shaped like...
"The Eight Trigrams?"
Li Yunjing's pupils abruptly contracted.
The rune closely resembled the Fuxi Eight Trigrams he had once seen on the Tortoise Shell, yet contained several additional, unfathomable variations.
Stranger still, when he took out the Tortoise Shell and touched it with his divine sense to try divining heaven's secrets, the rune transmitted a fragment of indistinct information: "In the northern darkness lies an abyss. A Mystic Turtle bears a chart."
The message ended abruptly, but it sent Li Yunjing's heart racing.
"What's going on?"
Li Yunjing was somewhat bewildered.
He had absolutely no idea how this rune had appeared!
Had it come from a divine ability he cultivated?
Or was it a rune of the Great Dao?
Or perhaps some special entity had secretly entered his body at some unknown point?
Or was it something else entirely?
Whatever the case, Li Yunjing was truly baffled. He could not figure out what was going on!
And those words, "In the northern darkness lies an abyss. A Mystic Turtle bears a chart," seemed to contain