"I don’t know what use this precious fabric has, so you will have to explore its secrets yourself,"
Xu Zimei nodded slightly.
The two of them were speaking as they arrived at the entrance of the Sea Serpent Clan’s treasury.
This treasury was also a simple and unadorned palace, which presumably contained the Sea Serpent Clan’s accumulations over the years.
After going past the guards at the entrance, the two of them slowly walked inside.
The treasury was quite large and had three levels.
The first floor contained various oddities, and the second was filled with books.
Liu Changfeng directly took Xu Zimei to the third floor and retrieved a long-sealed, dust-covered purple box.
At the sight of the purple box, Xu Zimei’s heart inexplicably began to beat faster.
He took the purple box and slowly opened it.
Inside was remarkably a piece of purple canvas.
He took out the canvas, the material of which he did not know.
It felt heavy in his hand and was somewhat warm to the touch.
The canvas wasn’t large, covered in dense black lines.
Xu Zimei didn’t notice anything else.
"Any clues?" Liu Changfeng asked from the side.
Xu Zimei looked at the canvas for a long while, then eventually shook his head.
He packed away the canvas and said, "I’ll study it more when I have the time."
"I advise you not to become too obsessed with this," Liu Changfeng said from the side.
"Many of my ancestors with exceptional talent spent their whole lives studying this, but in the end, they achieved nothing."
Xu Zimei nodded slightly and said, "Given the face of this precious fabric, I can effortlessly do you a favor.
Do you want to take complete control of the Sea Serpent Clan? I can help you kill those Clan Elders."
"Thank you," Liu Changfeng said sincerely, "Those Clan Elders also have the best interests of the clan at heart, we’ll resolve our differences."
Xu Zimei nodded and said no more.
Liu Changfeng had originally wanted to keep Xu Zimei at the Sea Serpent Clan for a few days, but Xu Zimei declined.
After leaving the Sea Serpent Clan, he headed straight for Heaven Illuminating City to check on the progress of the Teleportation Array there.
On his way, Xu Zimei surveyed his surroundings and, finding no one following him,
he gradually took out the precious fabric.
Then he took a black-purple stone out of the True Fate World.
The stone was emitting a faint glow at the moment, a phenomenon that Xu Zimei had not seen before.
He had obtained the stone when he was in the Shenghua Domain, in Liuhuo City, due to the palpitations caused by Taiying Youying.
It had been quiet until now, but with the appearance of the precious fabric, Xu Zimei felt there seemed to be some connection between the two.
He had noticed this unusual feeling earlier in the Sea Serpent Clan’s territory.
But he refrained from taking it out because Liu Changfeng was present.
Now, the moment Xu Zimei brought the black-purple stone in contact with the precious fabric,
the stone began to tremble, its light intensifying until it became a stream of light.
This stream of light soared into the sky, painting the firmament above in black-purple.
The vast glow poured down like a waterfall, finally all flowing into the precious fabric.
The next moment, the fabric began to burst forth with endless radiance.
Xu Zimei was astonished to find that the horizontal and vertical lines on the fabric began to rearrange themselves.
In the end, they transformed into a map.
He examined the map, which was a simplified miniature version of the Yuan Central Continent.
What surprised Xu Zimei was that the map only had one continent on it.
This suggested that the map was from a very ancient time.
The map was so ancient that when it was drawn, Yuan Central Continent hadn’t yet split into the five pieces it is today.
This thought left Xu Zimei rather startled and bewildered.
Marked on the map were a series of red lines that seemed to be guiding Xu Zimei towards something.
Eventually, the trail of the red lines stopped at a certain place.
"If this map is about Taiyang Zuzhao, then this endpoint could be the location of Taiyang Zuzhao."
He studied the map carefully, for the Yuan Central Continent of then and now had many discrepancies.
After comparing them one by one, Xu Zimei realized that the endpoint of this map wasn’t on any of the five continents.
It was in a hidden sea region within the Endless Heaven Sea.
Xu Zimei didn’t know whether, after so much change, the location of that endpoint had moved.
However, once the affairs of the Northern Continent were settled, he intended to explore it at the first opportunity.
He carefully placed the map into the True Fate World.
He then arrived in Heaven Illuminating City.
In just one night, so many in Heaven Illuminating City had died, creating quite a stir within the Heaven Tiger Empire.
The empire dispatched people immediately to manage the now chaotic city.
Investigations into the cause of the incident followed soon after.
By the time Xu Zimei arrived in the city, a new City Lord had already taken over.
The city had once more regained its order.
Xu Zimei guessed that the city’s Teleportation Array must have been repaired.
The new City Lord must have come through the Teleportation Array; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to arrive so quickly.
The previous destruction of the Teleportation Array by the Sea Serpent Clan was precisely because they feared reinforcements from the Heaven Tiger Empire.
When he entered the city, things went smoothly for him.
After paying the fee, he used the Teleportation Array to travel to the Bright Moon Empire.
The Bright Moon Empire is among the foremost of the thirty-six nations.
Once Xu Zimei had experienced another journey through time and space, he finally arrived at Purple Moon City, a prosperous large city in the Bright Moon Empire.
Purple Moon City was governed by the Shadow Moon Clan.
Xu Zimei had no intention of lingering and directly took another Array from Purple Moon City, preparing to travel to the Phoenix Perching Empire.
Recognized as one of the strongest empires within the human race, the Phoenix Perching Empire had a considerable reputation in the Northern Continent.
Bordering the Bright Moon Empire to the east and the Rash Bull Empire to the west, it was the undisputed hegemon of this region.
Both its territory and comprehensive strength were among the first-rate.
What was more significant was that ever since the True Martial Great Emperor initiated the Era of Emperors, the human race has been in its most glorious era.
The human race was inviolable, a consensus among the Myriad Clans.
It is said that in the lands ruled by the Phoenix Perching Empire, a great battle once took place.
A divine wind crossed the Wugeng Void and eventually descended to nest on this piece of land.
It underwent its heavenly transformation here, and the scorching fires baked the earth for years.
With not a single blade of grass growing, the land was devoid of life.
Finally, when the empire was founded, people named it Phoenix Perching.
Safety Sky City was a rather obscure small city under the Phoenix Perching Empire’s jurisdiction.
Among the multitude of cities, it was this small city that possessed its own independent Teleportation Array.
This puzzled many, and several other cities even protested to the empire.
But to little effect, and the empire provided no explanation.