Chapter 6468

Wellspring Order, the forehall.

The hall had been built from flagstone. It was plain and simple, without the dazzling gold-and-jade splendor of Pole Star Hall or the deep, hidden mystery of Thornwild Palace.

The pillars inside the hall were carved with the achievements of Wellspring Order’s ancestral patriarchs. Each relief told a piece of the order’s history.

A towering statue of the First Patriarch stood enshrined within the hall. It had been carved from fine warm jade, so lifelike that the gentle smile around its brow and eyes seemed almost alive.

That was the First Patriarch of the Aureate Way—the ancient mighty adept who had comprehended the Aureate Codex and founded the lineage of the Aureate Way. Long ago, he had already ascended to a higher cultivation level.

Julian sat cross-legged on a prayer mat, meditating before the First Patriarch’s statue. But stillness would not come.