Surveying the Earth Vein, Claiming a Treasure Site

Deep within the Examination Office headquarters in Great Wall Prefecture.

On a Star-Gazing Tower engraved with countless intricate formation patterns, several figures whose auras were as deep as abysses and vast as seas stood with their hands behind their backs, gazing at seven ancient bronze mirrors floating in the void.

The mirrors showed no clear images, only streams of energy in different colors, writhing like dragons as they collided and intertwined.

Shen Xuance sat in the seat of honor, his dark-gold official robes lending him a steady, imposing air.

As a True Person of the Purple Abode Realm, his every movement faintly resonated with the spiritual energy around him.

Seated nearby, sharing tea with him, was a woman who appeared to be in her thirties. She wore the deep-purple robes of a star official.

She was He Wenyan, head of the Astronomical Bureau in Great Wall Prefecture.

Also at the Purple Abode Realm, she carried a sharpness in her Divine Sense that seemed able to probe heaven's secrets.

"Lord Shen, half a day has passed. Have you sensed anyone lighting a 'Divine Flame'?"

He Wenyan set down her white porcelain teacup and asked the question evenly.

Shen Xuance chuckled and unhurriedly refilled her cup. "Lord He, you're too impatient. It's only been half a day. Those youngsters probably haven't even explored the outer reaches."

A secret realm was, at its core, a fragment of a shattered world.

Such fragments were exceedingly fragile and rejected outsiders. If a Purple Abode True Person forced their way in, the immensity of their Spell Power would cause the fragment to collapse instantly, consigning the entire realm to Obliteration in the turbulent void.

That was why the Great Zhou court had made this place a Heavenly Examination battlefield and sent Qi Refining cultivators inside to