Zhou Liangchen followed close behind Chu Xisheng and entered.
When he saw the scene ahead, his thick eyebrows rose slightly, surprise showing in his eyes.
"Could that be Divine Ao Rogue Person?"
Hearing this, Chu Xisheng also drew his gaze away from the illusory screen and looked ahead.
Before them lay a White Jade Plaza dozens of yards wide, with nine stone steles roughly fifty feet tall at its far end.
Every one of these steles bore the character for "enlightenment," carved in bold, vigorous strokes, powerful and upright.
Each character spanned some thirty feet, making it exceptionally conspicuous.
Yet Chu Xisheng's first glance still fell on the top of the stele in the very center.
An old man in green robes actually stood there. He had crane-white hair and a youthful face, white whiskers and eyebrows, and an extraordinary bearing, with the air and bones of an immortal.
On the lower left side of his face, however, were several white birthmarks shaped like snowflakes.
Chu Xisheng's pupils immediately contracted, his expression wavering with surprise and uncertainty.
Before coming to Linhai, he had learned a little about Divine Ao Rogue Person's life.
The appearance of this green-robed old man matched the legendary Divine Ao Rogue Person in every respect.
Those white birthmarks, in particular, were Divine Ao Rogue Person's distinguishing feature.
Despite his title of "Divine Ao," he actually had little connection to the ao race.
On the contrary, throughout his life, he had most enjoyed eating all sorts of sea turtles and golden ao. In his later years, he had even subdued an East Sea Divine Ao ten thousand years old as his mount.
Rumor had it that Divine Ao Rogue Person possessed the bloodline of the divine beast known as the Seven-Tailed Wind Marten.
This divine beast was