Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls Stir, a Same-Origin Opportunity Hidden Within Treasure-Dividing Cliff?

The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls suddenly stirred.

Luxuan immediately sent his divine sense toward Zhao Gongming.

Twenty-four azure pearls flew out of his body on their own, slowly revolving around him. The spaces within each divine pearl trembled faintly, as though they had sensed something extraordinarily compatible with themselves.

After Zhao Gongming cultivated the World Great Dao.

The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had become the most vital part of his Great Dao system.

A resonance of this level could not possibly arise without cause.

"Over there."

Zhao Gongming raised his head.

His gaze locked directly onto the deepest part of Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

That place was utterly different from the outer region.

After numerous ordinary spirit treasures had been taken, the treasure light around Treasure-Dividing Cliff had visibly dimmed. Yet several layers of immensely profound natural restrictions still remained at its deepest point, impenetrable even to the divine senses of many Quasi-Saints.

That thread of black-yellow light had appeared only for an instant.

It quickly vanished again.

Yet the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls trembled more and more violently.

Quite a few great experts nearby also noticed the anomaly.

Especially the Quasi-Saints who had already been searching the depths for top-grade spirit treasures.

They all sent their divine senses toward Zhao Gongming.

"Twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls?"

Someone recognized the treasure.

Shock clearly rose in his eyes.

A complete set of Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures.

Was being used by a disciple who had only recently entered the Great Luo realm?

Everyone's first reaction was to look at Luxuan.

Then they recalled that this fellow's three Taiyi direct disciples each possessed a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.

Suddenly, it seemed perfectly normal.

Penglai's resource allocation could not be measured by the usual Great Wilderness standards.

It was too easy to lose one's balance that way.

"Master."

Zhao Gongming lowered his voice.

"The thing inside seems extremely important to the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls."

"Then find it."

Luxuan answered without hesitation.

Treasure-Dividing Cliff was where Hongjun had told everyone to obtain treasures according to their own fate.

Since Zhao Gongming had felt such an intense response.

He could hardly refrain from going just because people nearby were watching.

The group headed deeper into Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

The surrounding restrictions grew ever stronger.

Further in.

Ordinary Great Luo cultivators found it difficult to advance any farther.

The Three Cloud Sisters had lower cultivation.

But with Luxuan leading the way, every spatial torrent and innate restriction parted to either side the moment it approached. They walked even more easily than some of the Quasi-Saints outside.

Bixiao glanced back.

Two Great Luo cultivators were trapped in an innate illusion formation, pacing in circles where they stood.

Then she looked at the smooth, level path beneath her feet.

The young girl suddenly felt that choosing the right master was truly important.

Others came to Treasure-Dividing Cliff to hunt for treasures.

Their side was more like sightseeing.

Treasures flew over to them on their own as they walked.

Whenever they encountered a restriction, their master casually opened it.

The experience was on an entirely different difficulty level.

At the deepest point of Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

A pitch-black stone platform gradually came into view.

There was nothing atop the platform.

But the moment the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls came within a thousand li.

Boom!

Twenty-four layers of Myriad Heavens phantoms unfolded on their own, beyond Zhao Gongming's control.

One illusory world after another circled Zhao Gongming.

And above the seemingly empty stone platform, a layer of transparent ripples finally spread.

"Something is hidden within a spatial interstice."

Bixiao spotted the clue first.

She now primarily cultivated the Space Great Dao.

She was far more sensitive than ordinary Great Luo cultivators to changes in overlapping spaces.

"And there's more than one layer."

Luxuan nodded.

"Seventy-two layers of space."

"No wonder no one has taken it all these years."

This treasure clearly could not be obtained merely by breaking through the restrictions with brute force.

If one could not sense the correct spatial location, then even if a Quasi-Saint shattered the outer stone platform with one strike, the true treasure would still remain hidden in another layer of space.

Zhao Gongming took a step forward.

The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls shook even more distinctly.

Every pearl released a ripple of space.

The twenty-four ripples overlapped one another.

They actually began resonating with the seventy-two layers of space on their own.

The first layer.

Opened.

The second layer.

The third layer.

Without Luxuan needing to act.

The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls seemed to already know the correct path, constantly adjusting toward the location of the hidden treasure.

Several great experts who had followed them saw this scene.

They naturally understood.

The treasure already had an owner.

A same-origin pull of this degree could not be faked.

When they reached the thirty-sixth layer.

The black-yellow light appeared again.

This time, it was several times clearer than before.

A three-foot-six-inch ancient ruler, black-yellow throughout, floated silently in the deepest part of the space.

The Cosmos Ruler was inscribed on one side.

Yin and yang flowed across the other.

Most wondrous of all.

Layer upon layer of tiny world phantoms also surrounded the ancient ruler.

Though incomplete.

They almost perfectly complemented Zhao Gongming's Twenty-Four Heavens Great Dao.

Zhao Gongming's breathing noticeably grew heavier.

He finally understood why the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had reacted so strongly.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Possessed space.

Possessed suppression.

They could serve as vessels for the Myriad Heavens.

Yet they lacked the power to truly establish and divide heaven and earth.

This black-yellow ancient ruler before him was the exact opposite.

Its core Great Dao was not suppression.

But—

Stabilizing cosmos!

Dividing heaven and earth!

Opening space!

If the two were combined.

His twenty-four layers of heavens, still only phantoms, might truly take a step from "the outline of worlds" toward tangible grotto-heavens.

Luxuan had also understood.

Was this not precisely the missing piece Zhao Gongming needed most right now?

He had been wondering where they might find a cosmos-type spirit treasure in the future to help Zhao Gongming perfect the Twenty-Four Heavens.

Yet the moment they came to Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

It delivered itself to them.

"Cosmos Ruler."

A voice suddenly came from nearby.

Luxuan turned his head.

A Daoist clad in gray-white robes stood beyond another spatial node, a faint funerary Dao rhythm flowing behind his head. His gaze was likewise fixed on the black-yellow ancient ruler.

The Daoist had clearly recognized the treasure as well.

There was some regret in his eyes.

But after seeing the unmistakable resonance between the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Cosmos Ruler.

He ultimately did not make a move to contend for it.

Hongjun had made it clear.

The treasures of Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

Were obtained according to fate.

If the Cosmos Ruler had merely manifested ordinarily.

Then they could have fought over it.

But now, the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had opened seventy-two layers of space themselves and found it.

To forcefully seize it now.

Would not be contending for fate.

It would be directly stealing the opportunity of Luxuan's disciple.

Remembering Luxuan's record over the years.

The gray-robed Daoist wisely chose to follow the Dao Ancestor's rules.

Cultivation was cultivation.

But one still needed a little risk management in life.

Seeing the other party silently stop.

Bixiao quietly sent a voice transmission to Zhao Gongming.

"Brother."

"Someone else seems to want it too."

Zhao Gongming naturally sensed it.

"The treasure has not yet fallen into our hands."

"Who it truly belongs to is still hard to say."

The moment he finished speaking.

The final layer of space suddenly opened.

Hum!

The Cosmos Ruler seemed to have finally broken free of its restraints.

A black-yellow divine light streaked across Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

More than a dozen Innate Spirit Treasures flying nearby were pressed downward slightly by that aura.

High-grade?

More than that.

A Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure!

Zhao Gongming shuddered inwardly.

Then.

The Cosmos Ruler did not fly in any other direction.

Instead, it went straight to the center of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Thud!

The ruler's body gave a light tap.

Within the space inside the foremost Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, which had contained only a phantom image, a roar suddenly rang out as if heaven and earth were being created.

Chaos parted.

The clear and the turbid separated.

The once-blurry sky.

For the first time, truly separated from the earth.

Zhao Gongming froze where he stood.

Within his Primordial Spirit.

A World Great Dao problem he had never been able to overcome in the past cracked open beneath that single strike.

"It can be done like this..."

He did not even have time to refine the Cosmos Ruler.

Before entering a state of enlightenment on the spot.

Luxuan's eyes likewise lit up at the sight.

Because the feedback from the Great Dao Sect.

Appeared at the same moment.

Yet this time, the feedback had only just begun.

Its scale had already far surpassed any of Zhao Gongming's previous growth.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

The Cosmos Ruler.

The Twenty-Four Heavens.

For the first time, the three had truly connected.