Within the Spirit Domain.
Yelü Tan's voice trailed off before he added one final remark. "Your Venerated Deity serves under Lesser Yang. Perhaps you know something of this Jianshi."
After circling around the subject, this Liao man had finally brought up Jianshi, one of Eastern Radiance's Twin Foundings, who had once held the Lingsa fruit position. Xu Xuan knew what he wanted to ask. Was he not simply probing whether Xu Xuan knew about that figure? If the Liao Emperor wished to advance further along the path of Lingsa, he could not avoid studying Jianshi's Great Dao—the [Divine Decree of Universal Proclamation].
The present Shepherding Spirit Emperor was still circling round and round along the path of Ancient Lingsa. Even after attaining his position, he probably still could not answer the question Qiyong had posed all those years ago.
What exactly were spirit monsters?
Jianshi, however, had found an answer. Spirit monsters were emergence: order that formed of its own accord within primordial chaos, and thus could manifest spirituality without any intervention.
The circumstances of this Spirit Domain had been modeled on the art of Duxuan. Surely this was some experiment by Emperor Lingsa!
Xu Xuan knew this was precisely where the other party's itch lay, but deliberately avoided answering directly. "I serve under ancient Lesser Yang. Do you think I know or not?"
"Well..."
Yelü Tan began to sweat. His memories of that Immortal Heaven vaguely returned, and naturally, he remembered the matter of [Azure Child]! The other party claimed to uphold that great figure's Dao lineage—the teachings of Wood Duke's foremost disciple.
If this revered divinity Shi Xian had truly revived from the remotest antiquity, or had only recently been promoted, then either way, he had probably missed the era of Eastern Radiance's rule.
"If you wish to