Tiger Chasing Imperial Palace, Colorful Cloud Blessed Land.
When the gods received their investiture at the Divine Palace, Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu followed Chen Yang's guidance to a valley within the blessed land.
As the two flew over this place, they happened to spot a young cultivator from the Song Clan.
At that moment, he was carrying another youth of his clan on his back, hurrying anxiously toward the depths of the valley.
Yang Lingshu swept them with his divine sense and found that both were at the Qi Gathering Early-stage. The young man being carried also had several conspicuous black patches on his body.
They immediately descended, stopped the still-conscious Song Clan cultivator, and questioned him.
The young cultivator was somewhat flustered at first, but after recalling his elders' instructions, he vaguely guessed the identities of these two unfamiliar cultivators and began explaining the situation within the blessed land.
Under the influence of the laws of the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land, regardless of whether one possessed aptitude, anyone could enter the Dao and cultivate so long as they practiced the corresponding secret art.
However, once they practiced this secret art, or remained beneath these laws for a certain period of time, the bodies of mortals and cultivators alike would undergo a mutation.
This change showed no abnormalities within the blessed land, but once they left it, their lifespans would begin draining away at a hundredfold, or even thousandfold, speed.
The source of this mutation was the patch of colorful clouds above their heads that never dispersed.
Chen Yang's side had now learned that these colorful clouds were transformed from the Divine Court auspicious clouds brought by Yu Xun.
In the terms used by Immortal Dao cultivators today, they contained the power of creation.
Beneath these colorful clouds, they