Beyond the stone wall lay a desolate land, as vast as a lesser thousand worlds. Overhead, dark, leaden clouds pressed down, almost touching the ground.
The true site sealing the Foreign Realm's Quasi-Immortal King lay within. Even after all these long years, that Quasi-Immortal King was probably still alive, preparing to escape.
And the Immortal King who had arranged this place had left a contingency behind, waiting specifically for his opponent's dying counterattack.
Xiao Tian had already spotted a treasure vase at the very center of this desolate, deathly silent space. It resembled Guanyin Bodhisattva's Jade-Clean Bottle, but looked as though it had been carved from an enormous mountain range. Rocky, ancient, and imposing, it stood upright there, with chaos qi naturally seething around it.
The most unusual part was its stopper: a smaller Jade-Clean Bottle, white as mutton-fat immortal jade. Inside it was an even smaller Immortal Seed shaped like a Jade-Clean Bottle. That was the Heavenly Seed, containing great fortune and known as the Great Dao Treasure Vase Seed.
The sight of this treasure-vase mountain reminded Xiao Tian somewhat of Gourd Mountain, formed from the seven gourd brothers. Both were used to suppress and refine demons.
There was no point going any further. The Heavenly Seed here was not yet perfect. Xiao Tian reckoned that the Ruthless Empress would obtain it in the future. Though her talent was unrivaled, she still needed her share of opportunities and fortune. If she died halfway along her path, how could she ever display her peerless splendor?
As for the treasure vase, it bore an Immortal King's Primordial Spirit imprint. The Foreign Realm's Quasi-Immortal King-a section of ancestral root belonging to the Imperial Family's seven-colored trumpet flower-was still alive as well. Xiao Tian had no interest in fighting over an incomplete Heavenly