The Outer Dao cultivators stopped in their tracks as if by unspoken agreement.
They looked toward the strange phenomenon in the depths of the seabed. The Nine-Colored Divine Mountain stood silently, like an invisible barrier that soundlessly parted the heavy seawater.
Radiance flowed within the mountain, forming a world of its own that spanned tens of thousands of acres, much like the blessed grotto-heavens of the various Three Daos sects.
Yet Beast Emperor and the others understood clearly that this was not nature's handiwork, but a treasure.
A treasure as immense as an entire blessed land.
Although Xingyao had long heard of it from the Heavenly One, seeing it with his own eyes still made his heart tremble faintly.
"Could this be the sea-suppressing immortal artifact—the legendary Treasure-Gathering Basin?"
A jade sheen flowed faintly within your eyes as you looked toward the center of the divine mountain. There stood an ancient stone stele, bearing two small words—
"Many Treasures."
Though Beast Emperor and the others did not possess divine eye arts like yours, they each employed their own methods.
A gleaming star-lit mirror floated above Xingyao's palm. Its light illuminated the surroundings and reflected the inscription upon the stone stele.
"Many Treasures..." he murmured. "Could this object be called the 'Many Treasures Basin'?"
The group was still some distance from the divine mountain. They halted in tacit understanding, and no one rashly stepped inside.
You gazed at the divine mountain before you, pondering inwardly. An immortal artifact? In the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury, you had heard Purple Bamboo and the others mention that immortal artifacts stood above Divine Prohibition Treasures.
The Heavenly Emperor had only managed to forge an immortal artifact by using Purple Bamboo's true body as an Elixir of Immortality.
In Ancient Antiquity, immortal artifacts could be counted on