The pagoda was still the symbolic and sacred architecture of Veluriyam Capital, but the capital knew very little about it now.

Even the Veluriyam Pagoda Gathering barely touched upon the pagoda. The most carefully kept secret they knew of was that there was an empyrean relic within it.

Jiang Chen speculated that the relic was but a red herring passed down from the ancient times, to distract people from the real secret. The true profound mystery within the pagoda was much more than a singular empyrean decree.

He’d considered the possibility back when he first learned about the pagoda, but hadn’t had a good grasp of the overall...