The Left Chancellor smiled and nodded. "As the honored guest wishes." Raising a hand, he beckoned, and from beyond the immortal mountain flew a dragon-python chariot and a bird-drawn carriage. When they descended before the two men, he bowed and said, "Honored guest, please board the dragon carriage."
Zhang Yu glanced over and saw the dragon-python's long body crouched low, a cushioned couch arched upon its back. He stepped up the hanging stairs and took his seat. Administrator Zhi boarded the bird carriage, took hold of the reins, and with the ringing of a bell, dragon and bird each soared into the air, racing through the void.
As Zhang Yu watched the immortal mountain shrouded in radiance ahead, divine light flickered in his eyes, and his understanding of this place grew ever clearer.
He had previously guessed that this so-called Immortal Dynasty was connected to the final Dao Seal—the Great Dao Seal corresponding to the Seal of Intent.
Intent was the heart; it was aspiration; it was also spirit. It could serve as a vessel for the power of wishes and the landscapes of the mind.
The Immortal Dynasty should originally have been a reflection of the Upper Layer powers within the Pure Spirit Abode. Those many secret realms could be called fragments of the future of this world's cultivators. Yet it was also because of what they saw that the living beings of the Earth Continent came to possess an awareness of the Immortal Dynasty.
However, having such a concept did not necessarily mean they could see the Immortal Dynasty, for it existed only in the past as imagined by them. And in the countless generations afterward, as cultivators searched for the Immortal Dynasty, the successive discovery of many secret realms caused its construction to be continuously refined and