The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

In some place she hasn't found yet.

Chen Siyao turned around and saw Yang Wanqing jump out of the martial arts pavilion.

"Yaoyao! I want to challenge the intermediate difficulty level every day!"

"OK."

"You need to practice too! You can't just leave me to fight alone!"

"understood."

The two walked towards the attic.

Chen Hao was still sitting on the steps in the square. The teapot was empty, the cups were on the stone table, and he was leaning against a pillar, resting with his eyes closed.

Yang Wanqing deliberately kept his footsteps low as he passed by.

Then she couldn't resist anymore and whispered in Chen Siyao's ear...

"Yaoyao, do you think there are still many places we haven't been to? The Thirty-Three Heavens is so vast... Do the other palaces have similar treasures?"

Chen Siyao glanced at the dense outlines of floating buildings in the sea of ​​clouds.

The Tushita Palace. The Jade Void Hall. These are just two places.

There were dozens of building complexes that she could see in the sea of ​​clouds.

"Take your time exploring," she said.

Yang Wanqing nodded. Then, in a low voice, she added, "And the Lingxiao Palace... do you think it really exists?"

Chen Siyao did not answer.

Her gaze passed over the sea of ​​clouds and landed in a distant direction... a place even further than the Jade Void Palace.

The clouds there were much thicker, obscuring most of the view. But through gaps in the clouds, one could vaguely see...

A pointed roof.

Golden.

Extremely high.

It is so tall that it surpasses the height of all the surrounding buildings.

It stood alone behind that thick cloud.

Chen Siyao stopped in her tracks.

Yang Wanqing followed her gaze... but couldn't see anything clearly. The clouds were too thick.

"Yaoyao? What are you looking at?"

Chen Siyao looked away.

"It's nothing. I'm leaving. We'll talk about tomorrow tomorrow."

When Yang Wanqing woke up in the morning, she felt a warm current circulating in her meridians.

It felt completely different from yesterday.

She moved her wrists and found that her energy flow was at least 20% smoother than the day before.

The bottleneck that had kept him stuck at the peak of the Meridian Opening Realm for so long was actually showing signs of loosening.

"Yao!"

Chen Siyao had already woken up. She was sitting cross-legged by the window, silently circulating her internal energy. Hearing Yang Wanqing's voice, she opened her eyes.

"You felt it too?"

"Nonsense! The energy in my meridians is much more active than yesterday!" Yang Wanqing jumped off the stone bed.

He jumped up and down twice, "I practiced for a while in the Martial Arts Pavilion yesterday, and the effect was so obvious?"

Chen Siyao nodded. She had a deeper understanding of this herself; the amount of spiritual energy she could mobilize in actual combat was three to five times that of daily meditation.

The high-intensity cycle of consumption and recovery is equivalent to forcibly expanding the capacity of the meridians.

"elder brother."

Chen Siyao walked out of the pavilion, where Chen Hao was sitting at the stone table with a tea set in front of him.

"After we've finished touring the palace complex... can Qing and I train in the Martial Arts Pavilion for a while?"

Chen Hao held the teacup without stopping, took a sip, and put it down.

"Of course, no problem."

Just four words. The tone was as flat as saying, "The weather's nice today."

Chen Siyao smiled and said, "Thank you, brother."

Chen Hao didn't reply. Helping his sister convert a few Flame Spirit Stones was nothing to him, barely a favor.

The chat room was already buzzing with activity.

"I'm so envious! Such results in just one night?"

"This martial arts training hall is incredibly helpful for cultivation; it's like having unlimited opportunities for real combat."

"I wish I could go..."

"Upstairs, you just need to get to Jupiter first."

"Don't worry, everyone. Now that the physical abilities of evolved beings have been enhanced, interstellar travel is not far away."

"Upstairs, what you mean by 'not far' could be ten or even several decades."

Seeing these comments, Chen Siyao spoke to the recording crystal: "Everyone, don't worry. As your cultivation level increases, your lifespan will also increase. That day will come eventually."

The chat was quiet for two seconds, and then...

"Yao Yao is right. Cultivation is something you have to look at in the long run."

"Yeah, we've only been mysteriously recovering for a short time, what's the rush?"

"Watch me in ten years!"

Chen Hao sat at the stone table, a teacup beside him. He heard Chen Siyao's words of comfort to the viewers in the live chat, but said nothing.

My gaze swept across the outlines of the floating buildings in the distance of the sea of ​​clouds, then paused for a moment.

Take it back.

Drink tea.

After finishing their preparations, the three left the Jade Void Palace area and walked north along the stone bridge.

Chen Siyao noticed it yesterday... There is another sizable palace complex to the north, about a 20-minute walk from the Jade Void Palace.

It is larger than the Tushita Palace and slightly smaller than the Jade Void Hall, but it forms its own system.

At the junction of the stone bridges, there is a fork in the road, leading north to a separate approach bridge.

The railings on both sides of the approach bridge are carved with star patterns... not random decorations, but star maps arranged in a regular pattern.

Yang Wanqing walked on the bridge, looking down at the railing: "These stars are arranged in such a regular pattern, are they constellations?"

"The Big Dipper," Chen Siyao pointed to one of the groups of seven closely arranged reliefs, "and over here, the Twenty-Eight Mansions."

The end of the approach bridge.

The main gate of the palace complex is of a lower standard than the Jade Void Hall, but its grandeur is no less.

The gate wasn't vermilion, it was deep purple. The plaque above the lintel...

Chen Siyao looked up.

"Ziwei Star Palace".

The live chat exploded instantly.

"Ziwei! The Great Emperor Ziwei!"

"Is this the palace of the Ziwei Emperor?!"

"One of the Four Emperors! The one who actually manages the Heavenly Court!"

"Wait, isn't this the territory of the Chan Sect? What's the Ziwei Emperor doing here?"

"Let's wait and see, what's the rush!"

Yang Wanqing turned to look at Chen Siyao: "The Ziwei Emperor? The one who oversees the daily affairs of the Heavenly Court?"

"I'm not sure," Chen Siyao shook her head. "We'll only know once we go in and see."

Push the door open.

The layout of the Ziwei Star Palace is completely different from that of the Yuxu Hall. The Yuxu Hall is laid out as a government affairs center, with meeting halls, offices, and document rooms.

The Ziwei Star Palace is more like a mansion. It has a front courtyard, a middle courtyard, a back courtyard, a garden, a corridor, and a group of independent side halls.

It's high-end, but with a strong sense of everyday life.

The main hall is not large. Upon entering, there is no high stone table in the center, but a desk.

A star chart hangs on the wall behind the desk, covering the entire wall, with densely packed star positions marked and connected by gold lines to form a network.

There were leftover documents on the desk.

Chen Siyao picked it up and looked at it.

The first jade disc contained personnel transfer orders. The second was a duty roster. The third...

She stopped.

"Found it."

Yang Wanqing leaned closer.

Chen Siyao read aloud the contents of the jade disc: "'Ziwei Heavenly Venerable, Master of the Beichen Immortal Sect, Third Rotation Supervisor of the Jade Void Holy Temple.'"

"Celestial Venerable?! Not the Great Emperor?"

"In ancient times," Chen Siyao said, "he wasn't called the Ziwei Emperor, but the Ziwei Heavenly Venerable."

Comments: "Is the Celestial Venerable higher than the Great Emperor?"

"It's not a matter of superiority or inferiority; the Ziwei Emperor is a fictional character."

"So the Ziwei Emperor did indeed exist! He was just called the Heavenly Venerable in ancient times!"

Chen Siyao continued flipping through the documents. There was a lot of information there.

She spent ten minutes going through all the readable CDs on her desk, then summarized her findings while looking at the photographic crystal...

"Confirmed: Ziwei Star Palace is the residence of Ziwei Heavenly Venerable in Yuxu Sacred Hall. Yuxu Sacred Hall, which is the entire area we are in now, is equivalent to the joint office space of all the immortal cultivation sects in the Thirty-Three Heavens."

She paused for a moment.