Within the Qinling Mountains, mountain ranges stretched endlessly, their towering peaks draped in lush ancient trees that reached toward the sky. This was a vast, ancient land brimming with life.
Though it spanned a million li, it was merely a pellet-sized patch compared to the Central Plains, yet countless times larger than Earth in another spacetime.
An ancient city stood in this region. No one knew when it had first been founded. Named Qin City, it was counted among the ten oldest cities in all the Central Plains.
Now, an expert from the Heavenly Secrets Sect had divined heaven's secrets and learned that the greatest ancestral dragon-vein lair in the Central Plains and the legendary Immortal Transformation Pool were about to appear. Countless powerful cultivators hurried toward the region.
Lu Chen, who had obtained the Nine Secret: Bing in the Qin Sect and devoted two years to cultivating it, also arrived in this ancient city to await the emergence of the Immortal Transformation Pool and the Eternal Dragon Lair.
As far as he knew, the Immortal Cauldron Fragment of Emperor Zun lay within the Immortal Transformation Pool. The Azure Emperor had also originated there, and the Chaos Immortal Essence that Great Emperor Wushi had used to forge his emperor bell had likewise come from it.
It held no shortage of divine treasures and immortal materials, and might even contain fragments of shattered emperor artifacts. It was a supreme treasure land.
Meanwhile, the Eternal Ancestral Dragon Lair in the Central Plains nurtured Dreamlike Divine Marrow, comparable to an entire Immortal Divine Medicine and enough to extend a person's life by another lifetime.
There was also the deceased Third-Generation Source Heavenly Master, whose body had been nourished within the ancestral dragon lair's Dragon Qi for seventy or eighty thousand years. A spark