"Let's go. We shouldn't linger here!" Without hesitation, he took the Purple Mansion Saintess with him and rushed into the distance, leaving that eerie immortal lake far behind.
Looking back from afar, they saw mist churning there.
Whether it was their imagination or something else, the place somehow felt sinister now, rather than sacred.
"Leave that place alone for now. Let's explore first!" Taiyi led Zixia around, passing through more than a dozen immense palaces before finally rushing toward a range of mountains.
Not a blade of grass grew here. Sheer cliffs and stone mountains were everywhere, with no soil at all, only massive rocks.
Stone mountains crowded together, utterly barren. Their sheer walls looked as though they had been cut with knives, rising straight up and down. Towering cliffs stood side by side like steps on a stairway to heaven.
Taiyi and Zixia were both drawn to the carvings on the mountain walls, each approaching one to study it closely.
He discovered that, among the surrounding carvings filled with Dao rhythms and profound mysteries, some were secret techniques and insights developed by Jade Lake sages as they worked backward to reconstruct Nine Secrets: Dou.
There were also scattered secret techniques, but most were incomplete, with more than half erased.
Nothing else involving the Jade Pool Holy Land's core inheritance had been left behind.
"We can't stay here long. Finding the Western Empress Scripture comes first!" Taiyi said gravely.
This place was full of eerie mysteries. Every moment they stayed brought another measure of danger.
Getting the Western Empress Scripture as quickly as possible had to come first.
"Indeed..." At his words, the Purple Mansion Saintess, who had been studying a carving, grew solemn and nodded in agreement.
The corpses in that immortal lake earlier had left her deeply uneasy.