The petals vanished without a trace, leaving only a little lingering fragrance on his fingertips. Tong Yan said, "There are some things I would like to ask."
As he spoke, he imperceptibly rubbed his fingers together, grinding all the fragrance and information fragments to dust.
In mere moments, through the information Zhao Layue had left in the petals, he learned the general circumstances here and the present situation.
The Star Gate Priestess was no ordinary person either. She soon calmed down, invited him to sit on the meditation cushion opposite her, and provided more detailed information, while ordering her subordinates to fetch the archives prepared long ago. While waiting for the archives, Tong Yan looked around the Sacrificial Hall. After only a few glances, he buried the shock this new world had brought him deep within his Dao Heart.
Those bluestone slabs looked very much like the squares on a Go board.
He thought that even he had believed his obsession with the Way of Go would hinder his pursuit of the Great Dao. Who could have imagined that he would ultimately attain the Great Dao through it?
The transformations of the Great Dao truly could not be fully fathomed by human power.
Other petals still floated on the water in the Celadon Basin, bearing the names of Liu S sui and Zhuo Rusui.
When he had been preparing to ascend, strange phenomena had appeared between heaven and earth over Green Mountain in the south. Presumably, Zhuo Rusui had also reached the most critical moment. Thirty-six enormous waves had risen on the East Sea, which must have pointed to something. Now that the petals were still here, it meant Liu S sui had yet to escape the Sea of Bitterness of Love. What a pity.
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