Lu Yang did not immediately answer the young Martial General. Instead, he pondered inwardly:
I got it wrong.
It wasn't the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master. This place was left behind by Si Sui! And by Si Sui during his True Lord days, before he became a Dao Lord.
To be honest, Lu Yang found this quite unexpected.
The design of this palace within the painting was simply too rich in artistic conception, profound and wondrous in ten thousand ways. How should he put it? It did not seem like something the Dharma Body Path could pull off.
But in any case, after he displayed his uniquely powerful Dharma Body, the young Martial General in the painting seemed to have misunderstood something. He no longer attacked Lu Yang. Instead, he proactively lowered the scroll and opened the gates, his eyes brimming with expectation, adopting an attitude of allowing Lu Yang to enter as he pleased.
Lu Yang thought for a moment, then simply stirred his thoughts.
[Golden Talent-Splitting Shadow Transformation]!
The next moment, shimmering light and shadow swirled amid hazy colors. An incarnation stepped out from behind Lu Yang, then took a single step into the palace within the painting.
Immediately afterward, a stroke of ink appeared out of thin air within the painting.
It was precisely his avatar.
Lu Yang's true body remained outside, where he could clearly see himself in the painting ascending alongside the young Martial General until they finally reached the summit of the palace's twenty-fourth level.
"May I ask... fellow Daoist."
Only then did the young Martial General turn around. He clasped his hands somewhat stiffly and said in a low voice, "Have you inherited my master's Dharma Body lineage?"
He was no fool. Though he had been briefly overwhelmed with excitement, once he calmed