"Sure enough, the gap between my Spiritual Sense and theirs was too great. Even with the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron's enhancement, it was difficult to conceal it completely." Yuan Ming raised his brows slightly. Though somewhat regretful, he did not withdraw his Spiritual Sense.
He swiftly adjusted his strategy, turning his Spiritual Sense into a faint mist, like drifting smoke and clouds, diminishing its presence.
Wu Yu sensed that something seemed amiss around her, but just as she prepared to investigate carefully, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged in like a torrential flood, gathering around her.
She had no choice but to temporarily set aside her doubts, focus her mind and gather her strength, preparing to break through to the Great Ascension Realm.
A moment later, spiritual light flashed in Wu Yu's eyes, and the five-colored radiance around her body suddenly swelled.
Of it, the four lights of fire, earth, metal, and water were especially dazzling. They shot into the sky in an instant, illuminating the markings atop four of the five stone pillars.
Around each illuminated marking hung a sphere of light, within which the spiritual essence manifested by the true intent of the Great Dao emerged: the blazing heat of crimson-gold flames, the weight of yellow-brown flying sand, the sharpness of keen golden leaves, and the nimble fluidity of invisible water.
Only the stone pillar marking representing the Wood Attribute remained dim and unlit.
Wu Yu changed her hand seals, and a mass of azure light appeared before her. A blue-black wooden-patterned sphere emerged from within it.
Azure light lit up across the sphere, making it transparent as jade. Within it, a fresh green sprout could vaguely be seen budding forth, dreamlike and illusory, brimming with vitality.
Looking down from above, Yuan Ming sensed the true intent of