If there was one place on Undying Mountain that had been especially lively lately...
It had to be Luo Hongyi's palace.
Si Chen had grandly called it entrusting the River Chart to her care, but really, he just wanted to wash his hands of it and keep people from disturbing his peace with their comings and goings.
As a result, the threshold of Luo Hongyi's normally quiet, elegant residence had nearly been trampled to pieces lately.
After all, the lure of "one day outside, one year inside the formation" was simply too great. Who wouldn't want to go in and fleece time for all it was worth?
Yet when Zhu Yao and Feng Qing stepped inside together, all they saw was a landscape painting hovering in midair.
Golden light flowed across the scroll's surface. Within it, mountains rose and fell, and great rivers surged, as though it were a living, real world.
An outsider watched the spectacle; an expert saw the workings.
Others only knew that this Magic Treasure was wondrous and could alter the flow of time, but these two Demon Sovereigns from Ancient Times saw something entirely different!
"Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed, containing the intangible and making it real. What terrifying means..." Feng Qing murmured.
Zhu Yao nodded. Having achieved Emperor Ascension through Space Law, she could sense the terrifying nature of this Magic Treasure even more keenly.
Both the Dao essence and the Laws within it lay far beyond any realm an ordinary Immortal Emperor could touch.
Yet before the two ancient Demon Sovereigns could examine this River Chart, a veritable miracle of creation, in detail...
"Pfft! Pah, pah, pah..." A dingy gray head poked out of the scroll.
It was Gray Gray, who had just finished making a round of its "territory" inside.
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