"What is this?"
Chen Cuo could clearly feel his own blade of "wild grass" growing steadily!
Just as he tried to probe deeper, his consciousness shuddered. His senses blurred again, and then he saw a vast expanse of land!
To the north lay boundless ice fields;
to the east, a blue ocean;
To the south lay the Hundred Thousand Mountains;
to the west, desert plateaus.
Mountains and rivers were scattered throughout!
"This is... the Divine Treasury Land!"
The thought had barely flashed through Chen Cuo's mind before he understood. Somehow, he knew what he was seeing and what it meant, without a trace of doubt.
"I never imagined the Divine Treasury would truly be this vast! No Secret Realm could compare!"
Then his will seemed to be seized and dragged toward the center of the land!
There stood a towering, magnificent city, black from end to end.
"This must be the Xia Dynasty Capital King City!"
His thoughts stirred again. Chen Cuo sensed ripples rising from every direction, arriving from all corners of All Under Heaven. On closer inspection, he saw countless thoughts, fragments, images, concepts, and other strange phenomena, all converging on the city.
As those phenomena gathered, ripples spread and light and shadow shifted. Across the land, they traced out grand, illusory forms—
a Divine Statue and Bronze Cauldron at the center, a bow in the Eastern Lands drawn taut and ready to loose, shadows of jackals and wolves around the edges, and a pitch-black figure hidden deep beneath the earth...
"The powers of All Under Heaven!"
Dimly, Chen Cuo saw a clump of wild grass.
Its phantom hovered above the great city. It drew a glimmer of light from the phenomena in all four directions, stubbornly stretching and growing, as though something were taking shape within it.