I'll go in first.
The Blue Sun's passage did not close. The Blue Masked Person's depths were difficult to judge, but one thing was certain: he did not seem to mind Shadow entering with him.
After years of painstaking planning, am I really going to give up at the final step?
Obviously not.
Gritting his teeth, Shadow cast dozens of protective Magic Seals over himself before entering the spiritual-energy passage with his entire body tense. He soon even caught up with the Blue Masked Person.
He doesn't seem to be in a hurry?
The passage was utterly calm. None of Shadow's preparations came into play. With nothing obstructing them, they reached the core of the Blue Sun remarkably quickly. It was... simple!
So simple that Shadow wondered whether he had fallen under some kind of illusion. Could the Yaochi cultivators have not only altered the Great Dao Patterns in secret, but also modified them extensively afterward?
"This is the place." The Blue Masked Person suddenly spoke.
Shadow paused. This was a world of spiritual power, without up or down, left or right. He had completely lost his sense of direction. The two of them stood upright, but they might just as easily have been upside down.
"This place?" Shadow frowned and tentatively asked, "Where?"
"Look." The Blue Masked Person lowered his head and glanced beneath his feet.
Shadow's brows furrowed. Beneath them, a gigantic black-and-white disc emerged. It was the symbol of the Yin-Yang Taiji!
It rotated slowly, and the two Taiji fish, separated in parallel, rotated with it. Outside the disc, wisps of strange spiritual energy continuously poured out.
It felt like a gigantic millstone, constantly squeezing out the purest spiritual energy.
"As expected, it's Heavenly Demon Spiritual Power!" Shadow revealed a trace of delight. "Yin-Yang Taiji... It seems