"The two little dragons are swimming..." Xiao Nannan pointed her little finger at the two thin lines in the Star Map. Her sight was unusual: she could see the lines shifting, winding, and stretching.
"A Star Map." Victorious Fighting Buddha nodded in confirmation. "My elder brother drew many maps like this in his later years."
"Were the Fighting Saint Emperor's maps meant to calculate the coordinates of the Immortal Realm?"
Lin Xian sat down cross-legged, deep in thought, and began to study them.
The two Star Maps were enormous. Rather than being carved into stone steles, they had been inscribed across the stone ground, the product of painstaking calculations.
They had been carved no more than a few hundred years apart, but clearly not in the same period. Both dated back roughly two thousand years.
"Two thousand years ago, Sakyamuni and Laozi left the Primordial Ancient Star and traveled west through Hangu Pass. So they went to roam the universe!"
"And they left their routes behind."
Ye Fan stepped forward to examine them, excitement surging through him. To lift a corner of history's mist and encounter the ancients of legend was a rare stroke of fortune.
Dao resonance flowed through the carvings. On the left, a compassionate Buddha sat beneath a Bodhi Tree. Endless Buddhist chants echoed around him, calming the heart and making one long to take refuge at his feet.
On the right, purple qi came from the east. An Azure Ox carried an old man westward, trailing the aura of the Great Dao—distant beyond measure, detached from the world.
Everyone studied the carvings carefully, patiently sensing their Dao resonance. Even Gai Jiuyou gave them several more looks. These were no ordinary Quasi-Emperors, but reincarnated Great Emperors. Even a Supreme Being of the present age like him could