The golden lotus hovered above Bai Yang's head. Its light was restrained and unadorned, while a golden flame flickered at the center of its pedestal, lending it an air of sacred gravity, as if it had come from beyond the long river of history.
The golden lotus had appeared so suddenly that Bai Yang froze for a moment. Then his heart jolted.
Based on his past experience, if he let his attention wander, he would instantly be expelled from this misty world. Now, the golden lotus's appearance had distracted him.
Once he left the misty world, all his previous efforts would go to waste!
Yet the expected expulsion never came. Even though Bai Yang wasn't reciting the scriptures, he remained in the misty world.
It wasn't Bai Yang's true body that was in the misty world. Rather, his spiritual consciousness had come here.
He hadn't been expelled from the misty world!
Bai Yang was astonished. He looked up at the golden lotus and roughly understood that it was entirely thanks to the lotus.
"A Ninth-grade Golden Lotus, a true Sacred Artifact. Unless they have a powerful faction backing them, even some wild Sage Realm experts might not possess one. And I'm only at the Heavenly Master Realm..."
Thinking this, Bai Yang felt conflicted. If those Sages without Ninth-grade artifacts found out about his situation, he wondered whether they'd be so furious they'd spit blood.
Bai Yang had of course noticed the golden flame at the center of the lotus pedestal. Since the Merit Golden Lotus was connected to his mind, he soon understood what the flame was for.
The golden flame at the center of the pedestal had no heat of its own. Touching it with his body wouldn't make him feel any burning, and it couldn't even light a