Beneath the hub of the ancient array, the threads pulsed intermittently—now clear, now dim—a sign of severe corrosion and decay.
Every hundred years, when the Secret Realm opens, what the Four Great Halls actually do is to repair this ancient array.
However, since no one can fully comprehend the ancient array, all their efforts are but a drop in the ocean.
Among the outermost cultivators—many of whom had entered in previous cycles, including even the Palace Envoy Luo Lizhu—they kept condensing array scripts, injecting them continuously into the ancient stele.
As each ancient stele lit up, resplendent golden brilliance unfurled from the periphery, layer by layer, spreading towards the heart of the array. Yet, with each layer passed, the golden light diminished, until, at the very core, the brilliance was nearly extinguished, leaving only a faint, most tenuous glow.
