"H-how, how is this possible?"
Atop Crimson Heaven Peak.
More precisely, within the Crimson Heaven Secret Realm.
For when Xiaohei led Xu Taiping onto the summit, Xu Taiping felt as though he had entered an entirely new world.
Crimson Heaven Peak was merely the entrance to this world.
This world stretched boundlessly, its ground smooth as a mirror, as though the entire world were made of glazed glass.
When you looked down, you could clearly see a brilliant star river and chaotic mists flowing beneath it.
It seemed that breaking through the ground would let you enter that chaotic star river.
Yet what truly astonished Xu Taiping was the stone stele towering at the center of this world.
"The Dragon-Slaying Stele!"
Indeed, it was a Dragon-Slaying Stele.
A Dragon-Slaying Stele larger than any he had ever encountered, radiating an aura stronger than all the others.
But if that were all, Xu Taiping would not have been so shaken.
"This is a scene that the remnant soul of Dragon Emperor Cangzhou once told me about, back when he was in the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury."
"The reflected phantom image of the Dragon Emperor Ancestral Dragon's Legacy."
Indeed, Xu Taiping had also realized that the Dragon-Slaying Stele, so lifelike that even its aura was exactly the same, was merely a projection.
Xu Taiping reached up to touch the Lotus Eye, murmuring inwardly:
To think I failed to find the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury in the Land of Chaos, only to discover this secret realm so closely connected to the Seven Lodges Treasury within the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden.
Previously, in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven, Xu Taiping had used a clone to search for the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury according to the star map Dragon Emperor Cangzhou