Deep within the Heavenly Ruins.
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Vegetation was sparse, and birds and beasts had vanished.
A gray-white stone stele stood quietly on the barren ground, utterly unremarkable, without the slightest trace of aura leaking out.
The greatest Dao was the simplest.
Unlike the Void Extremity Stele, the Cosmic Light Stele, and the other ruins steles, the Huncheng Stele manifested no extraordinary phenomena and exuded no Dao resonance. It resembled a stone one might find anywhere.
Were it not for the meditation cushions arranged before it proving that this was a place to contemplate a ruins stele, even an Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul True Lord passing by might overlook it-and miss the opportunity altogether.
Suddenly, a breeze stirred. A white-haired young cultivator opened his eyes and glanced at the newcomer, then lowered his eyelids again and immersed himself in the stele's Dao resonance. Not a ripple disturbed him; he treated Chen Beiwu as though he did not exist.
Why was it so deserted before the Huncheng Stele?
Chen Beiwu swept his gaze around and found that, apart from the white-haired young man, only three cultivators were present.
One was an old Daoist in plain, clean clothes, concentrating with his eyes closed. Another was a square-faced cultivator whose dignity required no display of anger. The last was an elegant female cultivator in palace robes.
With the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability, although Chen Beiwu could not discern their cultivation realms, he could roughly judge from their fortune and status that all four were Spirit Transformation Venerables.
"Little fellow, what is it? Have you taken a fancy to my spot?"
The elegant woman opened her eyes just then and smiled.
"You misunderstand, Senior. I thought you looked rather familiar, so I took a few extra glances," Chen Beiwu answered truthfully.
The woman smiled,