"This planet is amazing!
No wonder it was one of the core worlds of the three thousand big and small universes in ancient
times,"
the sky-devouring dog couldn't help but exclaim as its eyes became glued at the blue planet in front of
it.
Since it stayed in the three thousand big and small universes for a while, it had heard many legends of
the three thousand big and small universes and Earth's history.
"When I came back to Earth before, it wasn't this mysterious.
There are still many things on Earth that I know nothing about."
It was Austin who was the most shocked out of all of them.
No matter how many times he used his spiritual sense to scan the entirety of Earth, he found that he
still couldn't see through it.
For comparison, Austin's spiritual sense was only weaker than that of a governing god.
That made it all the more surprising when he couldn't see through a planet.
"Austin, what are you looking at?"
Austin's parents, elder brother, Ivy, Sue, and even Chad's girlfriend were all very confused. None of
them realized what Austin and the twelve zodiac animals were looking at.
With their strength, they couldn't detect anything unusual about Earth.
"It's nothing.
Mom, you go land and have a good time on Earth,"
urged Austin.
"Okay.
Go ahead with your work with the elders. Don't worry about us."
With that, Austin's mother excitedly led the others down to Earth.
Both Ivy and Sue were already divine gods.
When Austin last came to Earth, he gathered a rough understanding of the martial world's strength on
Earth.
That was why he had no worries about his family's safety.
"This planet is amazing. It has faint traces of some brilliant laws. Even I feel inferior,"
the chaotic world tree mused as it appeared next to Austin.
With its ability, it could go to any place in the three thousand big and small universes in the blink of an
eye.
"You're right.
Let's go down and have a look,"
Austin agreed with a quick nod.
In one move, he stepped down and appeared at the loess plateau, northwest of the Brilliant Kingdom.
Every inch of the vast plateau was covered with yellow sand.
For a moment, Austin and the twelve zodiac animals merely stood on the plateau and looked to the
west.
"What?"
Shock suddenly filled Austin.
The space before him rippled.
"It's an ancient city!"
Before Austin could say anything, the sky-devouring dog couldn't help but shout loudly.
A city slowly emerged from the trembling space ahead of them.
"It's the Valley Pass!"
Austin also exclaimed loudly.
Two words gleamed brightly on the city's plaque: Valley Pass.
Although they were simple, the magnificent ancient words on Earth revealed a sense of the fickle turn
of fate.
Years of wind and frost barraged the entire city.
"Let's go have a look."
Austin decided and led the way.
Tremendous pressure weighed down on them the closer they were to the ancient city. Every breath felt
like a battle to be won.
Boom!
Bright lights shone down on Austin and the twelve zodiac animals when they were right at the ancient
city's gate. Mysterious patterns appeared one after another until they completed an array to isolate the
ancient city.
Neither Austin nor the twelve zodiac animals could take another step closer to the ancient city no
matter how hard they tried.
Right before they reached it, the ancient city seemed to have moved into another strange and
mysterious space.
Although they could see it clearly ahead of them, their spiritual senses could no longer perceive its
existence.
"It's amazing!
An ancient city like this is actually on Earth!"
All the twelve zodiac animals couldn't help but be impressed.
None of them managed to react in time.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Before any of them noticed, the gate of the ancient city opened.
An old Taoist priest rode on a blue bull and leisurely exited the ancient city.
At the gate of the city, an elegant man dressed like a high-ranking official respectfully dropped to his
knees.
"Farewell, Master Lear!"
Despite his elegant appearance, a deafening voice left him.
"It's Master Lear!"
Austin also couldn't stop his scream.
It only took Austin a moment to realize who the old man's clothes and penchant for riding a blue bull
reminded him of. There was an ancient man in the Brilliant Kingdom, Lear, who was the widely
renowned as the founder of Taoism.
At the gate of the ancient city, the bull ambled along with the old man perched on its back.
This old man had white hair and a ruddy complexion.
Laws of supreme enlightenment dotted his skin but didn't distract from his extraordinary temperament.
Eventually, the bull stepped into the air and seemed to gear up for flight.
"Master Lear!"
Austin desperately called out through his shock.
The old man's gaze turned towards him.
"Ha-ha, I didn't expect that someone would see me going out of the Valley Pass tens of millions of
years after,"
the old man said, smiling softly.
"Master Lear, is that really you?"
Austin excitedly asked.
It was difficult not to get excited when Lear was a famous ancient man.
"Young man, what you see is me, but not me.
Although we are in the same place, we are not in the same era.
I'm from an era which existed tens of millions of years ago, while you are from an era which came into
being tens of millions of years later.
We are meeting in the same space but in different eras.
This is fate."
A faint smile pulled on the old man's lips when he looked at Austin.
Eventually, the blue bull stepped into the air and headed westward.
All of a sudden, an ancient book
opened above the old man's head.
Many ancient words jumped up from the book and turned into mysterious laws of supreme
enlightenment.
A rumbling sound rang out in the void.
Dragons, phoenixes, turtles, snakes, kylins...
Shadows of various legendary beasts appeared endlessly and seemed to guard the ancient book.
"It's the Principle of Philosophy!"
Pleasant surprise bloomed on Austin's face.
The Principle of Philosophy was a book that Lear left on Earth.
Unexpectedly, Austin saw it again.
He was very familiar with the Principle of Philosophy.
However, since it was personally written by Lear, it was not insignificant at all.
Austin immediately sensed the ancient book and the words that popped out with his spiritual sense.
"Such profound meaning!
Maybe this is the real Principle of Philosophy!"
Austin looked nearly intoxicated and he gradually fell into a state of meditation.
"Seems like Austin's destined to meet that old man.
We shouldn't disturb him,"
sighed the sky-devouring dog.
All the other zodiac animals quickly nodded in agreement.
They could see that the old man meant to preach to Austin.
An ancient man who existed tens of millions of years ago preached to a person who was born tens of
millions of years later.
This could only happen when both parties had a very high cultivation base of the law of
space.
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