Chapter 1031: Dao Source Secret Treasure 5

Hearing this, Wei Qiuling didn’t insist either.

“What instructions does your great-grandfather have?” Shen Wen’an asked.

Shen Xiuyan cupped his hands and repeated Shen Yuan’s words.

“This time we must trouble Third Grandfather.”

After pondering slightly, Shen Wen’an waved his hand: “It’s fine. Third Grandfather just happens to want to go out for a walk as well.”

It had been more than ten years. In his contemplation of the *Twenty-Four Solar Terms Celestial Rotation True Seal*, he had gained many insights, and he also wanted to go outside to test the conjectures in his heart.

“In that case, Xiuyan will take his leave first.”

Shen Xiuyan rose and cupped his hands.

Right now his mind was entirely occupied with the Mystic Mechanism Escape Armor, so he didn’t say much more to Shen Wen’an.

The couple stood in the pavilion, watching Shen Xiuyan’s figure disappear at the courtyard gate. Wei Qiuling sighed: “This child surpasses Chongming as he was back then. His whole heart is thrown into governing the family.”

“It makes him seem a bit cold.”

Cold?

Hearing this, Shen Wen’an suddenly chuckled.

Wei Qiuling looked at him, somewhat puzzled.

Meeting his wife’s gaze, Shen Wen’an smiled and shook his head: “I was just thinking that this word seems to have been used on your husband back then as well…”

His mother Hu Yufen had secretly worried about him no small amount because of this.

She felt he focused entirely on cultivation, seldom communicating with his brothers and family.

“It’s not a bad thing as it is…”

With a sigh, Shen Wen’an said in a deep voice: “Given our Shen Family’s current situation, we truly do need a rational ruler who can also steel his heart.”

“Someone indecisive cannot lead the clan out of its predicament.”

Wei Qiuling nodded, then shifted the topic: “When do you plan to leave?”

After pondering for a breath, Shen Wen’an said: “Tomorrow.”

“For Father to personally give instructions on this matter, he must still feel he owes Xiubai.”

“If we can find Chongxu as soon as possible and let father and son meet once, that would also be fulfilling one of Xiubai’s wishes.”

After hearing this, Wei Qiuling also let out a heavy sigh.

“Second Brother’s branch has had it too hard…”

“Husband, this time when you go out… will you go to the Ice God Palace?”

After a moment of emotion, Wei Qiuling suddenly spoke.

The Ice God Palace?

Shen Wen’an’s expression froze; he understood his wife’s meaning.

Back when the Dao collapsed, Shen Chongzhen had gone with Zhou Xuan to the Ice God Palace. Now more than ten years had passed—how could parents not worry about their child?

“We’ll see when the time comes. If there’s a chance, I’ll personally make a trip.”

He also wanted to know how Shen Chongzhen had fared over these years, and whether those two Dao Seal Jade Carvings had led him and Zhou Xuan to become Dao companions, or whether he had been taken in as a disciple by the Grand Elder of the Ice God Palace.

Hearing this, joy rose in Wei Qiuling’s heart, but then a trace of worry surfaced on her face.

“There are many forces outside the realm eyeing our Shen Family. Husband, you must be extremely careful this time.”

A single drop of Blood of Dominator had pushed the entire Jiuzhou World to the very cusp of the storm.

Though more than ten years had passed, compared to those Nascent Soul Realm old monsters whose lifespans easily stretch a thousand years, a mere decade is nowhere near enough for them to forget the marvel of the Blood of Dominator.

And when the Dao collapsed back then, as all sides battled for the Blood of Dominator above Yunshui City, Shen Wen’an had been within the city the whole time.

His aura and appearance would certainly have been memorized by those with ulterior motives; now that he was going out, it was entirely possible he would attract their attention.

“It’s fine. I’m already prepared.”

As Shen Wen’an spoke with a smile, his heart had also settled on a decision.

…

The imperial carriage, radiating multicolored rosy light, cleaved through the firmament, leaving a splendid long rainbow in the void.

This time, Shen Chongming inside the imperial carriage’s cabin had not gone into seclusion, so he was well aware that ever since the carriage left the Nameless Island, the Dao Slave old beggar had followed along, continuing to play the role of the carriage driver, sitting outside.

He gently lifted the curtain with his palm and gazed at the sky outside, his face filled with puzzlement.

Even now he still couldn’t quite understand, with such a flamboyant appearance, how had this imperial carriage traveled all this way without attracting any cultivator’s notice?

If earlier it could be said that, because the Nameless Island lay in an overly remote location with no other cultivators around, no one discovered the carriage…

But just now, he had clearly watched the imperial carriage streak above a vast island, and below, on that island, he could faintly see many pavilions, towers, and orderly roads.

Obviously there were cultivators on that island—how could they not notice such a dazzling carriage passing overhead?

His curiosity stirred, Shen Chongming immediately spread his Divine Sense over the whole imperial carriage, cautiously probing its structure.

A moment later, a look of sudden shock flashed across his face!

Within this imperial carriage, he had actually sensed the aura of Spirits!

More importantly, the carriage did not contain just a single Spirit!

At the carriage’s core, five Spirits wrapped around a hazy, illusory mass of eerie energy, slowly rotating!

From that hazy, illusory energy, Shen Chongming distinctly felt a kind of supreme, majestic presence, as though beholding an entire world!

In that instant, Shen Chongming went from astonishment to doubt, and then a gleam of comprehension flashed in his eyes.

“Dao Source…”

“Could this imperial carriage be a Dao Source Secret Treasure?”

He had a faint intuition that the mass of energy encircled by the five Spirits within the carriage should be the legendary Dao Source—that is, the core of one world’s origin.

If his guess were true, then for such a Dao Source Secret Treasure to fall into the hands of the Golden-haired Monkey, wouldn’t that mean the Golden-haired Monkey very likely once was a Lord of One Realm?

But how had a dignified Lord of One Realm fallen to the level of an ordinary beast, in the end relying on guidance from Li Qing, who at the time was still only in the Fetal Breathing Realm, to slowly step onto the path of cultivation and reach his current level of cultivation?

As Shen Chongming pondered bitterly, the imperial carriage continued forward; when the stream of light the carriage had become once again skimmed over a medium-sized sea island, a faintly peculiar feeling suddenly rose in Shen Chongming’s heart within the cabin of the carriage.