Xu Yi manifested the Wrathful Chi Aspect once more, transforming into a fierce ape. His Heavenly Eye opened, and he took aim at the ancient, weathered blue formation banner and shot straight toward it.
As he drew near the banner, he felt a powerful force press down on him.
He had felt this force the last time he visited.
After trying again and again without ever breaking through, Xu Yi made several more attempts. Then he gave Yan Zi, inside the Sun Moon Shuttle, an instruction. She agreed and began making nervous preparations.
This was her first time operating the Sun Moon Shuttle for such delicate work, and she feared that a mistake might ruin Xu Yi's plans.
Xu Yi cautiously approached the defenses radiating from the blue banner, measuring their boundaries. Once he had finished, he turned the Four-Colored Seal, which he had long kept ready, into a light gate. At the same time, his great hand reached for the boundary.
He had prepared for two possibilities. If the light gate could not absorb the boundary on its own, then when it swallowed him, he would have it swallow the boundary too.
Of course, this was only a theory.
But it was a highly plausible one, because Xu Yi clearly remembered—
Back when he had fought the servants of several Yuan Lords from the Great Sun Divine Palace, they had brought out a Phoenix Pattern Divine Lamp that unleashed blazing flames of immense power. The light gate released by the Four-Colored Seal had swallowed those flames, indirectly waking Xue Zihan and strengthening her power.
With that precedent in mind, Xu Yi was confident.
Sure enough, the moment he leaped into the light gate, the entire sky began to shudder violently. Huge waves rippled through it, as if water were