The Gate to "Heaven" (Part 1)

Dragged by a mysterious, unknown force, Yin Kuang's Purple Dragon Soul was forcibly extracted from his body and coiled around the "white axis." Immediately afterward, the majestic soulflame purple dragon, roughly a hundred zhang long, shrank by another size. Perhaps because of this, the "sun" that had been pushed away from the center by the "red axis" and drawn toward the "white axis" slowly returned to the exact center of the "red and white axes."

Clearly, this was because the "white axis" had been infused with the power of the Purple Dragon Soul.

In truth, the half of the Purple Dragon Soul power Chong Ming needed did not refer to its quantity! To him, no matter how enormous the total amount of Purple Dragon Soul power was, it was insignificant compared to the energy required for him to overcome his tribulation. How could the "mere" half of Yin Kuang's Purple Dragon Soul power possibly help him through it?

What Chong Ming meant by "half of the Purple Dragon Soul power" was actually the Purple Dragon Soul's "power of existence"—the power that served as the vessel of "fortune."

To make an analogy, if the Purple Dragon Soul was a lake, then that lake consisted of both the lake itself—the container—and the lake water. The lake itself objectively existed; it was the tangible existence of Heaven-Bearing Fortune. The lake water, meanwhile, was the quantity of Purple Dragon Soul power. Even if it was used up, it could be replenished. The water might one day dry up, but the lake itself would not vanish simply because it had no water—though, strictly speaking, it would then be called a huge pit!

What Chong Ming needed was to fill in half of the "lake" that was the Purple Dragon Soul! This meant that Yin Kuang's