Chapter 491 - The Palace (2/2)

”That's… not an ordinary piece of rock,” Lady Ren said.

”Oh, then what is it?” he asked.

”That's a spirit vein,” Lady Ren said. ”A low grade one, but it helps keep the place running and also helps mask our aura in here so that we don't get found.”

Alex stopped for a second and asked, ”found by who? People from another continent?”

”Found by… you're too young to understand. Just get stronger and you will find the answer on your own,” Lady Ren said.

”Okay,” Alex said. He didn't like that she never fully answered anything, but he wasn't in a situation to demand anything so he kept quiet for a bit.

He still looked at the glowing, mystical-looking ceiling. ”Do all spirit veins glow like this? I wonder if the one beneath our sect glows the same way,” he said, talking to himself. ”I never thought I would see spirit veins out in the open. I remembered hearing that this was what made spirit stones after it remained unused for quite a while.”

”Not necessarily,” the jaguar said. ”Spirit veins do turn to spirit stones if unused, but there are times when the Qi in the area is so strong that instead of turning to a spirit stone cave, they instead get upgraded to a higher grade of spirit vein.”

”For example, this one used to be a True grade spirit vein a couple of hundred years ago, but we brought another True grade spirit vein from someplace else, and stashed it above here. This one slowly stole away the energy from the other vein and was upgraded to a Saint grade spirit vein,” the jaguar said.

”Huh?” Alex stopped in shock. ”This is Saint Grade spirit vein? But I thought Lady Ren said it was a low grade one.”

”Oh,” Lady Ren said when she realized her mistake. ”I'm sorry. I forgot that you haven't seen higher grade Spirit vein. Hopefully, you will see them someday.”

”Some of them are a sight to behold. Especially the metal one in th— never mind,” Lady Ren stopped speaking and got a little sad. She sighed and moved forward.

Alex didn't ask any more questions and the group walked in silence. There were a few guards along the way that bowed their heads towards them and from what Alex could see not a single one even saw him.

'They don't dare to put their head up, huh?' he thought.

Soon, they came upon a massive golden door. The door was an arched door that was nearly 10 meters tall and 6 meters wide.

Lady Ren stopped and waited for the guards to push the door open. In the meantime, Alex noticed a sort of drawing on the wall.

From what Alex could see, it looked like a face that stared deep into his soul. The face looked like a feline beast, but before Alex could even notice what it really was, a crack appeared in the middle of the face and the door opened to show the inside of it.

The door lead to a massive hall with many seats carved directly from the marble that made the cave. So, everything in the cave was white.

There were about 20 seats on each side, and each seat was at least 4 meters in length and height. At the end of the hall was an elevated pedestal with a massive seat and two smaller seats next to them.

The two smaller seats were of the same size as any of the other seats, but one of them had a blue cloth on them with golden embroidery on iy, and the other one had a red cloth on it with golden embroidery as well.

The seat at the center, however, didn't seem to be carved from stone at all. In fact, it seemed to be fully made up of gold from top to bottom with a white cloth hanging from either side of it that too had golden embroidery on it.

The carpets on the ground were yellow in color, almost as if they were meant to be golden. There was some white in the carpets but mostly it was just golden.

There were chandeliers hanging from the glowing stalactites that were all golden as well.

It was as if the maker of this place didn't want any other color to be used aside from white or golden.

There also seemed to be murals along the walls, but Alex couldn't really see them from outside.

Lady Ren walked into the room and stared directly at the golden seat at the center. ”Can you bring out the child?” she asked.

”Uh, yes,” Alex said and quickly called out Pearl.

”Meow!” Pearl said when he was out. He looked around at the bright lights and showed a stunned expression.

”This shall be your new home from now on child,” Lady Ren said to Pearl. She then looked at Alex as well and spoke.

”Welcome to the Palace of the White Tiger.”