Mystic Yellow Azure Flame surrounded Chu Zhou as he used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to mimic a cold yin aura. His myriad medicine clarity body heightened his physical sensitivity, and he immediately sensed the yin energy drifting through the void actively showing an "affinity" for him.
After that, his passage was unhindered, and he soon reached the towering, ruined dark palace at the heart of this land.
Up close, he could feel its former grandeur and splendor even more keenly.
Although most of it had collapsed, leaving only broken walls and rubble, the surviving black metal pillars were still carved with intricate, ancient patterns, radiating an awe-inspiring sense of age and majesty.
The palace's main doors had long since vanished, leaving only a massive opening like the gaping maw of a beast, with fathomless darkness within.
With sword intent surrounding him, Chu Zhou sensed no danger and slipped through the opening into the dark palace, which had lain silent for countless years.
The palace's interior was even more expansive than it appeared from outside, as though it formed a space of its own.
The enormous dome had shattered, revealing the dark purple crescent moon outside. Cold moonlight spilled through the opening, barely illuminating part of the area.
The floor was paved with slabs of an unknown black stone, covered in cracks and dust.
Along both sides, he could faintly make out fallen statues and damaged murals depicting ancient sacrificial rites and the movements of the stars, filled with a mysterious, sinister air.
The dark energy and moonlight power permeating the air were even denser here, almost solid.
Chu Zhou could sense a subtler yet far greater pulse of energy deep within the palace, like a sleeping behemoth breathing slowly.
He advanced cautiously, passing through layers of ruined walls and empty