White-Gold Banner
Mo Yuyan had dared to enter the Scarlet Astral Heaven-Surmounting Realm with him, so she must have had some means of protecting herself. With her cunning, she would never place all her hopes in him. Lu Xiaotian had dealt with Mo Yuyan many times. Though he considered his own reputation fairly good, someone as wary as she was would always leave herself some room to maneuver.
Even if he had been in her place, Lu Xiaotian would never have placed all his hopes in someone else.
"Rest assured, Fellow Daoist Lu. This time, we've entered the Scarlet Astral Heaven-Surmounting Realm together. We'll share in glory and ruin alike. I know how serious this is," Mo Yuyan said.
"In that case, find a way to open the node." Lu Xiaotian nodded. There was no point saying more. How far they could get depended not only on how well they worked together, but even more on luck. Even Mahayana Realm cultivators couldn't fully control the spatial node leading to the Scarlet Astral Heaven-Surmounting Realm, much less cultivators at their Integrated Body Realm.
Mo Yuyan raised one hand. Four small white-gold banners gradually enlarged in her palm before flying into the air. Each banner grew to several hundred zhang tall and stood upright in the void. The great white-gold banners swayed, a thread of starlight flowing across them. At first glance, they seemed unremarkable, but on closer inspection, the starlight followed a distinct path, faintly tracing an intricate pattern across the fluttering banners.
The pattern on each banner seemed to be a line of stars. As time passed, that line flickered faster and multiplied. It was as if the banners could no longer contain it: threads of starlight began spilling beyond their edges, stretching into the void and winding together to