"Fifth-Order... All-Heaven Constellation Array?"
"Patriarch Hall? Heaven-Reaching Numinous Treasure?"
Fang Qing gazed at the pillar of starlight soaring into the heavens from the Void Ruins Sea Eye, listening to Turtle Elder's words as countless thoughts churned through his mind.
"Yes... the All-Heaven Star Palace was a Spirit Transformation power. It had even produced more than one Spirit Transformation cultivator!"
"They possessed several Heaven-Reaching Numinous Treasures. Wouldn't that mean at least several Spirit Transformation cultivators?"
"And that founding patriarch... perhaps he too was a Spirit Transformation Venerable?"
"The last Spirit Transformation cultivator of the All-Heaven Star Palace ascended ten thousand years ago. That meant its founding dated back incredibly far, at least to the High Antiquity era of the Breath-Nourishing Dao!"
"So many Spirit Transformation cultivators, and coordinates for an ascension passage... Even if one or two died, there should always have been some who survived to reach the 'Immortal Realm,' right?"
"Where were they, then?"
"Perhaps traces of their activity remained in the High Antiquity era. Perhaps among the Golden Core True Lords still sleeping today, one or even several of them were among them..."
"Or perhaps... they had long since been 'captured,' fed into the mouths of Golden Core True Lords, even refined into great pills or treasures... specifically to sense 'Primordial Beginning Heaven'?"
Spirit Transformation Venerables gathered nearly all the fortune of the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm over ten thousand years. Usually, only one could emerge every ten thousand years.
Thus, the antiquity of the All-Heaven Star Palace far exceeded imagination.
But Fang Qing had no time to think further, for he and Zhan Hongxiu had already arrived at the Void Ruins Sea Eye.
Rumble!
The sea eye exhaled and inhaled like a primordial savage beast opening its blood-filled maw, or like an incomparably enormous black hole, swallowing