Within the continent.
Layer upon layer of Mysterious Palaces stood here, connected to the distant roots of the Constructive Wood. They towered like mountains and stretched like the Vast Sea, their edges beyond the reach of sight.
The most striking was naturally the Azure Gold Mysterious Palace. Dao aura drifted about it, Mysterious Radiance flowed across it, and several ancient characters were inscribed on its azure wood plaque: [Eastern Azure Palace].
The Spirit Monster formed from Azure Bamboo led the way, following a long white jade path toward the left of the Eastern Azure Palace. A bronze palace could be faintly seen ahead.
Xu Xuan followed behind Jiao You, but his gaze rested on the Eastern Azure Palace. Something stirred in his heart as he examined the inscriptions on the precious metal-and-wood pillars to either side.
"Twin suns shine together; leisure wood shifts position."
The so-called twin suns were Greater Yang's Bright Day and Lesser Yang's Bright Leisure-the powers True Lord Tianyu had borrowed to attain his Dao. First had come Heavenly Leaf, then Eastern Radiance.
As for [leisure wood], it should have referred to [Profound Leisure], an immortal object within the ancient Lesser Yang Dao Attestation. It was also what True Lord Tianyu had relied upon to shift wood through Jia Vastness and gather it under the Returning Horn tone.
Did the two Mysterious Lords, [Azure Leisure] and [White Leisure], also attain their Dao by borrowing objects from the Lesser Yang tradition?
"Great King, we're nearly there."
Jiao You spoke and pointed ahead. The full outline of the bronze palace was beginning to emerge.
"Are you a Spirit Monster?"
Xu Xuan had held the question in for the entire journey, but finally asked it.
Jiao You was the size of an ordinary person, but his entire body consisted of