Great-Grandfather shook his head. "No. They say all the waters of the world flow into Guixu, and all the waters of the world flow out of Guixu. Since when was there a heavenly river source?"
Cui Jiuyang told him everything he had learned in the Yellow River, and said he wanted to visit the heavenly river source to see just what the Heavenly Court was up to.
Great-Grandfather nodded, a rather strange expression on his face. "That certainly sounds like something you would do. Well? Have you made up your mind to go?"
Cui Jiuyang had actually decided long ago that he would go, but Great-Grandfather's question gave him a moment's hesitation.
But that wavering lasted only an instant. Before his eyes flashed the Prefect of Mount Tai, Hu Seventeen, the Mass Grave beside the railway Beyond the Pass, the Divine Path Heaven and its supernatural charades, the chaotic East Sea Dragon Palace... and all the injustices he had seen from south to north, along with the bloody suffering that lay in the near future. At last, he nodded solemnly.
Great-Grandfather sighed. "I've had little to do with them, but you are my dear great-grandson, after all. I'll go with you."
Cui Jiuyang shook his head decisively. "You don't need to go. As you said, you don't like dealing with them, so this is my business. There's another reason, too. Look at this."
Under the moonlight, Cui Jiuyang took a Formation Disc from inside his robe.
The Formation Disc was carved entirely from warm jade from the seabed, its surface densely engraved with runes. It was already brimming with spiritual power, ready to activate those runes at any moment.
Great-Grandfather chuckled when he saw it. "Oh? You've already mastered the reversed Heaven and Earth Creation Art?"
Cui Jiuyang nodded. "You've