"The place we went to was called the Great Wilderness. Within it..."
Pressed by her elders, the fair-faced female cultivator spoke while glancing toward the Ancient Gate. A figure sat cross-legged in midair before it, wrapped in layer upon layer of strange light.
Seeing no reaction from that figure, she continued, "...within it lay a great kingdom named Zhou. It closely resembled the Zhou Dynasty of the Three Ancient Eras, though many details differed. Its founding ancestor was said to be a descendant of a Heavenly God who fell in the Ascension War and left behind a legacy. Most importantly, the true god worshipped by the Zhou Kingdom was called Ancestor Chen. The outline of his Divine Statue looked much like... much like True Person Soaring."
She was one of those who had just passed through the portal into the Divine Treasury, and she hailed from Kunlun.
Compared with the others, who had aged, grown young again, or suffered grievous injuries, she had plainly been affected the least. She had lost only a little Primordial Vital Energy and looked somewhat pale and gaunt at worst, so Kan Yuanzi had immediately questioned her about what had happened.
At her words, everyone could not help looking toward the figure suspended before the gate. Shrouded in layers of strange light, his form was indistinct, as though countless figures overlapped within him and shifted without cease. Yet when they looked closely, it all seemed illusory, as if nothing had happened at all. After only a few glances, exhaustion rose from the depths of Kan Yuanzi's, Huang Xiyu's, and Lingya's hearts, as though their minds had been taxed beyond endurance!
Alarmed, they hurriedly looked away, their hearts filled with even greater shock.
Huang Xiyu asked, "You were inside the Divine Treasury for only a short