"That stone looks familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it."
Profound Mystery True Person scratched his whiskers, stood upright on Jiang Yi's shoulder, and stretched his neck as far as he could.
"Forget it. I really can't remember."
The lump of a Calico Cat swished his tail and said with certainty:
"Little Jiang, you've only just taken charge of [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] and become its new master. Under all heaven, even a True Lord or Great Power couldn't easily stir your life Qi.
"The name 'Jiang Shang' must be the result of the workings of heaven being concealed."
Hearing this, Jiang Yi stopped dwelling on it and reached out to fasten the golden Bell around Profound Mystery True Person's neck again.
Only, the Cat Master had been fed too much lately and was growing rounder by the day, so that it left a faint ring of indented flesh around his neck.
"No wonder I didn't sense a thing. So it borrowed the name I used before when capturing the Mighty Spirit Essence Qi."
Jiang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. Cultivators always needed to conceal their birth dates and times, names, and origins, never exposing them carelessly.
Especially in the Southern Continent, where many Demonic Cultivators studied shamans' curse-killing methods, vigilance was necessary.
"Still, even after inheriting [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] and becoming its so-called 'new master,' I can only look, not enter. It's pure torture for my appetite."
Inwardly resigned, Jiang Yi closed his eyes and looked within. Between the real and unreal, existence and nonexistence, there had originally been only the Heavenly Book in his mind.
Now, however, a sheet of Golden Paper had appeared out of nowhere, bearing a radiant palace, its buildings large and small unfurling in layers like lotus flowers, containing all