Yu Ci didn't make them wait too long. His left hand stopped shifting hand seals, instead gripping the lower end of the Taiyin Banner once more to flatten out the fluttering cloth. At the same time, his right hand struck down with a palm, hitting squarely in the center of the banner. In an instant, spiritual light rolled like a wheel, or like a giant boulder crashing into the surface of a lake to create fine, rippling waves. Circle after circle of light waves blossomed outward. Beside him, Bao Yun, a beauty with snow-white skin and a red dress, appeared as crystal-clear and translucent as fine jade under the illumination of the light waves, yet this time, no one cast their gaze upon her.
Regardless of whether they were experts or laymen, everyone's gaze was fixed dead on the long banner in the courtyard. They watched as the talismanic patterns upon it split and raised themselves before fading away again, the spiritual light surging and revolving before finally returning to simplicity and truth, reverting into a pitch-black long banner.
Yet at this moment, everyone shifted to a different kind of gaze.
On the pitch-black banner face, there was finally spiritual light emanating naturally. Perhaps compared to the magical tools commonly prepared by people, it was still laughably weak, but no one would underestimate it. Because just a few breaths of time ago, this long banner had still been nothing more than a blank slate, and now...
It was unknown whose lips exhaled a long breath: "Six layers of ritual refinement, completely fulfilled... This is the method of Piercing the Heavens in a Single Breath!"
The tail-end of the voice was immediately shattered by a buzzing whisper. In the open and in the shadows, who knew how many people's gazes shifted