Clouds and mist swirled, while smoke gathered and dispersed.
The city Chen Cuo had built by joining Gray Mist with the Jade Belt Peach Paradise still stretched across the Sea.
Even the raging winds and towering waves, even a world-splitting upheaval, had not shaken it in the slightest.
Soon, ripples rose across the thick mist, as though people were fighting within it!
So when the storm passed and cultivators gathered, the place naturally drew their attention. Many stopped nearby to investigate and watch.
"What in the world is that thing?"
"Venerable Master said its aura resembles the Divine Treasuries recorded by our Master's Sect. It could well be a Divine Treasury that's suddenly appeared in the Mortal World!"
"A Divine Treasury!? Those things are incredible. They're either abodes left by Immortal predecessors or legacies of Great Divine Ability Users from Pre-Qin and Primordial Antiquity. Find one and make it out alive, and a complete transformation would be the least of your gains!"
"That may be true, but Divine Treasuries have always been well hidden. Even when one is about to appear, its arrival can be calculated years in advance. Why has this one appeared so abruptly?"
"Wasn't it because that Lord fought someone? The whole Sea was nearly turned upside down, let alone this place. Never mind a single Divine Treasury—other ancient abodes might surface too. After thousands upon thousands of years, who knows how many opportunities lie hidden beneath this vast Sea? They might emerge one after another from now on."
"True enough. Too bad Venerable Master and the others have gone to meet that Lord. If he were here, with his keen eye, he'd recognize this place's origins in a heartbeat."
As the young cultivators talked, they scanned their surroundings, plainly on guard.
Others like them were scattered