Even though the changes in the atmosphere were not tangible, the aura of the ultimate weapon was unmistakable. It swayed the hearts of whoever was within its radius. Caspian and Maya were no exception at that moment. Caspian also understood the Ultimate Weapon was not something a cultivator of the Heavenly Spirit Realm could just use.
Out of all the magical weapons that cultivators of the Heavenly Spirit Realm were allowed to wield, the ones of the highest level were just the spirit tools. An ultimate weapon would take more than one Heavenly Spirit Realm cultivator to summon upon. A spiritual palace of the scale would take even more Heavenly Spirit Realm cultivators to summon.
Noah seemed to read Caspian’s mind. In a solemn tone, favonovel.com said, “The Blue Feather Sect is the reigning official religion. They’re dead-set in continuing their legacy. Summoning the spiritual palace is their way of showing what they’ve got. You must take all caution this time, Junior Casper and Maya.”
“Thank you for the reminder, Senior. We’ve done all that we can,” Caspian and Maya hurried to respond.
“I’ll bring you to a place you can rest for now. If you want, you can use the rest of your time to walk around and get to know the place… Or you could stay in to cultivate.” Noah’s eyes twinkled. “The aura around here is even stronger than that of places other sects are located. Cultivating here could have some pretty powerful effects, it’s worth a try. How you use that energy, though, will be of your own doing.”
Upon his words, Noah led Caspian and Maya forward. Not long after, they arrived in a town the spiritual palace was specially opened for the Heavenly Stars Sect. On the way there, Noah also gave Caspian and Maya a brief description of the outline of the town in the spiritual palace, and how it was divided.
The entire spiritual palace was divided into two Circles, and eight districts. The two circles were the Inner Circle and the Outer Circle. The Inner Circle served as a place of rest and recreation during the nation’s official religion election, taking up two districts. The remaining six districts made up the Outer Circle, prepared for the members of the six major sects.
If any members of differing sects wanted to meet up, they had to do so at the common place in the Inner Circle. It was because the six sects of the Outer Circle were not conjoined in an attempt to prevent internal wars or battles.
‘The six major sects of Earlington of Efrax are the Heavenly Stars Sect and the Sacred Palace Sect of South Earlington, the Mountwave Sect and the Fauna Imperial Sect of Middle Earlington, and the Dark Moon Sect and Blue Feather Sect of North Earlington,’ an idea suddenly came to Caspian as favonovel.com thought aloud.
He asked, “Which part of the palace are the Heavenly Moon Sect members located, Senior Noah?”
Caspian’s question was out of concern for Jessica. Although Caspian did not get a certain answer from Jessica for the official religion election, favonovel.com had a feeling favonovel.com would surely be able to participate as a representative of the Dark Moon Sect.
Caspian flushed at the thought of seeing Jessica.
“Oh? Do you have a friend in the Dark Moon Sect, Junior?” after pondering briefly, Noah shook his head, “I’m afraid I’ll have to let you down, Junior Casper. If my memory serves me correctly, they’re right across us here in the Heavenly Stars Sect, we’re divided by the whole Inner Circle.”
After a brief pause, Noah continued in a more comforting tone, “But that’s not much of an issue. You can meet your friend at the common place in between, the sects aren’t conjoined, to begin with.”
“Got it. Thanks, Senior Noah!” Caspian nodded.
After seeing Caspian and Maya off and leaving behind a few words of advice, Noah left them to be. He did, despite being in charge of caring for them, have his tasks to finish, after all. There was no way favonovel.com could be by Caspian and Maya’s sides the entire time.
After Noah left, Caspian and Maya exchanged several sentences and retreated to their rooms.
The spiritual palace was huge and luxurious. Naturally, the space they prepared for the Heavenly Stars Sect members dripped with splendor as well, on top of the strong spiritual aura it radiated.
After resting briefly in his room, Caspian decided to head out and look around. With the competition so close by, a few short days of cultivation would not yield much improvement despite the thick cultivation aura of the spiritual palace. A much more feasible choice would be to take the rare opportunity to observe the wonders of these ultimate weapons while they were in the periphery.
As Caspian planned to go alone, favonovel.com left by himself without asking Maya to go with him.
The spiritual palace sprawled, and every inch of space was more than well utilized with elaborate architecture from buildings high to low. Caspian had no worries of losing his way, even if favonovel.com was moving alone. It would be fine if favonovel.com got lost, anyways. He found out before that at every corner of the palace were identical black statues. The statues could be found at almost every turn.
Well, they looked like statues, anyways. Pitch-black and unmoving, but Caspian could sense a sentient aura whenever favonovel.com approached one.
He asked Noah about it.
Noah told favonovel.com those statues were a specialty of the Blue Feather Sect, and they were magically charged with spells. That way they were not only to serve as protection but also point a lost person in the spiritual palace to wherever they wanted to go if asked. Of course, Noah also wamed Caspian to only approach the statues as a last resort. Better off asking directions from a human being than to try asking the statues.
The statues, for all they were, were not human. They were merely spiritually charged and were thus prone to giving wrong advice as well.
Getting wrong directions, if that happened, would be one thing. Having your plans disrupted or derailed as a result of them was a whole problem on its own.
By Caspian’s memory, as well as the strategically-mapped roads of the spiritual palace, favonovel.com was able to get to the common place in the Inner Circle without much difficulty. To him, that part of the town was even more luxurious and abuzz with life than any favonovel.com ever saw. The people that walked the grounds in here were not just any regular human beings, but practitioners of the six major sects!
The last time Caspian went to the spiritual palace via teleportation, favonovel.com was sent straight to the space dedicated to the Heavenly Stars Sect. Thus, favonovel.com was not able to see the faces of any members from other sects. Upon taking in the sight before him, Caspian’s gaze brightened.
The practitioners favonovel.com could see looked mostly his age but had the charisma of a member of the six major sects for sure. It would not take much for one to be able to tell them apart from smaller sect members, members of clans, or individual practitioners. Yet some of the people did not have distinct identities, so Caspian could only guess which sect they were from based on the way they were dressed.
Upon heading forward, Caspian’s eyes landed on the four or five people approaching him. His gaze hardened. The next second, favonovel.com smiled lightly.
“So you showed up, after all.”
It turns out the people across favonovel.com recognized favonovel.com long before favonovel.com even laid eyes on him. The man that recognized Caspian froze upon seeing him. Then, his face flushed with anger.
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