Shrouding the Heavens: The Years When I Was the Female Emperor's Strictest Master

The next instant.

He suddenly reached out and, under Shao Hanyun's puzzled gaze, grabbed directly for the smallest pitch-black broken stele.

Buzz!

The instant his fingertips touched the stele—

A cold, desolate tremor, like a faint vibration from the distant end of the River of Time, surged through his fingertips and instantly spread across his entire body!

Immediately afterward, Tan Lin's soul and Sea of Consciousness exploded with a boom, as though raging waves had risen from thin air.

The scene before his "eyes" blurred and shifted.

Countless shattered, distorted images, ancient and majestic syllables, and obscure patterns of Dao principles he could not yet comprehend crashed wildly against his established understanding like a flood pounding the shore!

Chapter 161: Memories of a Secret Tryst with Tianling (4K Bonus Chapter, Please Subscribe!)

Boom...

Tan Lin let out a muffled groan. His Indestructible Golden Body shuddered sharply, and the knuckles of the hand gripping the broken stele turned faintly white from exertion.

Unlike his first contact with the "broken stele" a year ago, the spiritual impact this time seemed even fiercer, more concentrated—or perhaps more targeted.

This pitch-black broken stele was absolutely an immensely important part of his former Enlightened Dao Artifact, the Yin-Yang Divine Millstone.

It was even possible that, for quite some time after its destruction, the divine spirit within the Enlightened Dao Artifact had not completely vanished, but had remained within this fragment.

Unfortunately, after a million years, it had inevitably turned to ash.

Yet even so, the lingering trace of Dao resonance within it still resonated with the Crimson Mark deep within his soul.

The impact was powerful, and his soul shook, but Tan Lin had long expected this and kept his mind steady.

In the outside world, he subconsciously closed his eyes. Flecks of nearly