Cloud Firmament Heavenly Palace, within the final palace of books.
Liang Zhaohuang sat cross-legged upon the Five-Colored Lotus Platform, his hands forming seals as he struck one Dao seal after another into the altar before him, refining the hub that controlled the heavens according to the records in the jade slip.
To refine and control the Heavenly Palace's hub, one had to use the particular Dao seals of the Eight Directions Pavilion, much like using keys.
Fortunately, Liang Zhaohuang had now advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm. Otherwise, he would not even have had the strength to form these Dao seals; even with the keys in hand, refining and controlling the central hub would have been difficult.
This refinement took nearly two hours. It was also because he had only just advanced into the Nascent Soul Realm, and his cultivation and mana were somewhat lacking, that it took him so long.
Once he had refined and taken control of the hub, a strand of Liang Zhaohuang's consciousness immediately spread outward from it, filling the entire Cloud Firmament Heavenly Palace.
This differed from his previous many out-of-body excursions. During those, his consciousness remained outside, as though looking down from above, and could glimpse only the surface. Now, however, his consciousness permeated every corner of the Heavenly Palace. With a mere thought, he could mobilize the powers throughout it and control and operate the formations and Restrictions arranged everywhere within it.
Only then did Liang Zhaohuang gain the most direct and detailed understanding of just how badly damaged and incomplete the Cloud Firmament Heavenly Palace was.
It could be said that nearly seventy percent of the entire Cloud Firmament Heavenly Palace had been ruined. The reason it could still remain beyond the Nine Heavens, in the chaotic void, without collapsing or falling