Buzz!
Just as Daoist Kongkong and Brocade-Furred Rat were being hunted down with no way to the heavens and no door into the earth, to the point that they could not help questioning their lives...
Without warning, the deepest reaches began to tremble.
In an instant, both the fleeing pair and Earthcry King's pursuing group could not help stopping, their attention utterly drawn in.
The disturbance was coming from the depths.
The tremor was so immense that it could be felt clearly even from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Not only that, within this deathly silent world, where even the Dao's rhythms and laws seemed dead, terrifying Dao rhythms erupted from the deepest place, where the deathly aura was thickest.
In that instant, even the utterly enraged Earthcry King stopped. He could not help standing where he was, his gaze fixed upon the deepest reaches.
There was light there—a beam of incomparable brilliance and splendor, entwined with countless Dao rhythms, inscribed with supreme patterns, carrying an air of sanctity and antiquity as it shot into the heavens.
As everyone stood utterly shaken, a wondrous spectacle emerged within that vast radiance in the gray sky.
That... was a palace.
Magnificent and solemn, sacred and ancient, beautiful and noble.
Its entire surface was carved with radiant script, containing supreme power within. It bore the blessings of sages and the protection of the Great Dao.
The instant it appeared, the Great Dao of heaven and earth could be seen circling it, exalting it as their center, while divine wonders shrouded it. Thousands upon thousands of golden clouds of merit drifted about it, and golden lotuses of creation bloomed.
That palace was exceptionally divine, proclaiming its extraordinary nature.
It was so enormous that it nearly blanketed the entire sky. The sun, moon, and