Jiang Wang's taunting voice abruptly stopped as he warily surveyed his surroundings.
Tai Yin, however, breathed a sigh of relief...
He was inside the array!
In Jiang Wang's visual perception, the black and white that had completely filled his view suddenly began to flow like water, rapidly contracting until they formed an ancient door.
It was as if only that door existed.
Beyond it, everything that should have been visible—the Fu Mountain, the Azure Sea, the reefs, even Tai Yin and Xiang Bei—had vanished.
Only mist remained.
The mist gave him a familiar feeling of being dazed and muddled.
Jiang Wang thought for a moment, then suddenly realized.
Wasn't this the Fog of Ignorance from the Five Palaces Sea?
It was the most dangerous pass cultivators had to cross on their way from the Soaring Dragon Realm to the Inner Palace Realm.
This fog clouded the three souls and obscured the seven spirits. How many cultivators' True Dragons of the Dao Vein had lost their way in the Fog of Ignorance, only to be worn away completely?
Even now, after the Five Palaces had opened and all five Supernatural Powers had been acquired, with the Soaring Dragon of the Dao Vein already swimming into the Star-Hidden Sea, the Fog of Ignorance still kept seeping out of the Five Palaces Sea, and still had to be cleared away again and again.
Cultivators would always face the unknown; ignorance could never be rooted out.
Buddhist School cultivators said that cultivation was a process of constantly sweeping away ignorance.
Hence, "Diligently wipe the mirror clean at all times; let no dust settle upon it."
The mere Fog of Ignorance shrouding the black-and-white door was enough to warrant caution.
The faintly perceptible danger deep within the mist made him even more keenly aware of