In ages past, either the Taiyin Ancient Emperor or the Sun Saint Emperor had once walked these ice plains, leaving behind an account of his insights after attaining the Dao. It could be called an unsurpassed secret treasure.
On the northern ice plains, Jiang Zhu contemplated the profound wonders of the Saint Emperor's Dao.
Beneath an endless sinkhole, he stopped before a peculiar stone filled with crisscrossing blood vessels.
Jiang Zhu felt a terrifying, heart-quaking fluctuation assail his divine sense, but the Void Mirror ultimately kept that power at bay.
This was the legendary Heavenly Desire Stone. The slightest carelessness when probing it could utterly annihilate one's Primordial Spirit, for it was like the collected desires of an entire world. Recklessly examining it would shatter one's sea of consciousness in an instant.
Ancient texts recorded that Heavenly Desire Stones condensed from the desires of the Heavens. They contained boundless desire, could make people sink into oblivion and lose themselves, and devoured living beings' divine sense. They were utterly terrifying.
Others speculated that so-called Heavenly Desire Stones were actually formed by fusing stellar power with the flesh, blood, essence, and souls left behind by ancient Quasi-Emperors who had failed to attain the Dao.
Another account claimed they were wondrous objects forged from the condensed blood essence and resentful souls of countless heroic spirits when an entire ancient star was destroyed.
Jiang Zhu felt endless desires batter his heart and used these heavenly desires to temper it.
After a long while, he activated the Void Mirror and put the stone away.
In the time that followed, he visited one ancient site after another, reaping considerable rewards from the Dao repositories left behind by ancient sages.
Though most of these repositories were incomplete, the unique mysteries recorded within them still yielded many insights.