Chapter 232: Decoding the Ancient Map: Eight Divine Beasts, a Chaos, and the Greatest Mountain Under Heaven

Pierce Looske carefully unfolded the yellowed Ancient Map. His fingertips brushed the silk, and he could almost feel the weight of time in its roughened weave, along with a faint, unsettling air of mystery. It had weathered more than a century, yet it remained intact, with no fading and not a single torn edge. Pierce's star-bright eyes narrowed as he studied the strange map that supposedly held clues to the whereabouts of the Nine Spirit Needle. The map was a perfect square, roughly a foot across....