Many Treasures Heaven.
The sky was bright and the air clear, and golden autumn brought a refreshing coolness. Maples grew across the treasure mountain shimmering with golden light, their mingled reds and yellows like flames that never died. A woman stood quietly at the summit.
Her brows and eyes were like a painting, her features radiant. She wore a long vermilion dress, its sleeves embroidered with Vermilion Bird and Greater Yang patterns. At that moment, she gazed at the towering golden mountain in the distance, lost in thought.
She suddenly spoke and looked back. A Golden Man with mismatched eyes had appeared behind her at some unknown moment.
"My lady, why did you not tell me you had awakened?"
The newcomer was the very Golden Man who had once expounded the Dao in the Grotto-Heaven, the martial uncle Baoqiu had mentioned. Now, however, he had shrunk to an ordinary person's height. His expression was deeply respectful, even somewhat fearful.
"Kuying, you are sharper than you were back then. You even knew I had awakened."
The woman chuckled softly and turned toward him, revealing a pair of vermilion eyes of her own. An immensely majestic aura of Li Fire wreathed her body, its vermilion hue utterly pure, like the Sage Emperor of the Bright King seated in the south, hearing and observing all beneath heaven, with radiance following radiance.
It was none other than ancient Li Fire!
Her aura had already reached the Purple Mansion Peak, yet there was a faint sense that she transcended it. Her divine status made even Kuying, who was already a Hidden Metal Attendant Envoy, afraid to look directly at her.
"Azure Origin has already entered Long Abode. Hidden Metal and Yi Wood counterbalance one another, so almost no one beneath heaven can detect the change