The Jade Void Palace's Anomaly

Dark chaos billowed. Behind Meng Qi appeared the Indestructible Yuan Shi Aspect. All changes, all things, every cause and effect, past and future, collapsed into a point beyond words. At a glance, one might have thought it the aspect of a Daoist—a Daoist who existed in the past, present, and future all at once, containing every possibility and all energy.

The surrounding void rippled. Intangible laws and principles emerged as substance, following the interweaving of the past, and slowly merged into the Indestructible Yuan Shi Aspect.

In that instant, Meng Qi felt as though he had found his True Self and glimpsed his Other Self. The two were linked, their auras drawing together, and he naturally stepped onto the Second Layer Heavenly Ladder, opening the gates to the Grandmaster realm.

That inexplicable bond and deeply entwined karma convinced Meng Qi that the person inside the coffin was his body from Earth. The "I" was singular, though the body was divided in two. Through that mysterious connection, his "Earth body" frantically absorbed vital energy, weaving in principles such as those of the great sun as it transformed toward his current body—matching it in both appearance and its powerful physique, its flesh and blood imbued with spirit!

The surroundings gradually grew dim, hazy and muddled. The power of the earth grew faint, the power of lightning and the Primordial Magnetic Force weakened, and the sensation of time passing faded. It was like an illusion, as though they had returned to the beginning. One felt weightless, as if one's body had first disintegrated and then contracted into a sphere. It became difficult to draw upon most of the power of heaven and earth, difficult to tell up from down, left from right, front from back. One misjudged the passage of time; whether making