"Wang Qinghua's aura has disappeared..."
Zhang Wentian stared at the void, already covered in golden flames and transformed into a world of fire.
His grave, solemn expression relaxed slightly, and his gaze then fell on Xiang Kuang, who had completely transformed into a Golden Crow, and on the Main Palace of the Immortal-Attracting Palace, suspended between heaven and earth and radiating a mysterious aura.
"The Heaven-Bearing Daoist Grounds..."
"So the inheritance grounds of the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace really were taken away by that Old Devil during the sect-destruction battle."
Beside Zhang Wentian, an old token wrapped in vines slowly floated upward. Countless leaf-vein patterns on its surface gathered to form the face of an old man.
"Master, the opportunity for Wang Qinghua to become an immortal that you mentioned was probably this Daoist Grounds, wasn't it?"
Zhang Wentian bowed slightly and respectfully to the face on the token, speaking thoughtfully.
"That's right. Our Heaven-Hearing Pavilion inherited its legacy from the World Sea and knows far more than the powers of this world."
"When the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace was destroyed back then, those powers failed to recognize this Heaven-Bearing Daoist Grounds. How could our pavilion's ancestors have failed to recognize it?"
"It's just that after that battle, by the time our pavilion's ancestors went looking for it, this Heaven-Bearing Daoist Grounds had already vanished without a trace."
A glint flashed in the old man's cloudy eyes on the wooden token.
Back then, the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace had somehow obtained a piece of Heaven-Bearing Stone. After tens of thousands of years of accumulation, they had finally forged the rudiments of the Heaven-Bearing Daoist Grounds.
Unfortunately, before they could use the Heaven-Bearing Stone as a catalyst to communicate with the upper heavens of the World Sea and draw upon the opportunity to ascend