After a slight moment of disorientation, Zhang Yu found himself standing in a golden desert. Beneath the clear blue sky lay rolling, uneven dunes, motionless like frozen waves.
This should be that world of Dao transformation. He sensed it and discovered that most of his power was buried deep within his mind, while the power he displayed outwardly was roughly only between the Second Chapter and Third Chapter.
Although he felt that, with a mere turn of thought, his power could be restored in an instant, he did not do so.
For he sensed that something was amiss with this heaven and earth. The atmosphere and light outside were filled with a strange sensation, and it seemed there was some immense obstruction preventing his power from rising to a higher level.
His gaze shifted slightly. This restraint of power should have been a choice proactively made by the Seal of the Body he had mastered, having sensed something in advance.
As long as he did not encounter danger of equal power, he had no intention of rashly changing it. After all, he was still unfamiliar with this place.
He did not know where that "higher self" was now, but its degree of completion was surely greater than his own. Under such circumstances, concealing himself first was the prudent choice.
He checked again. The two swords, Skyshock and Cicada Cry, still rested quietly and soundly within his sea of consciousness, as if awaiting his summons at any moment. Void-Severing Purple Qi Sand, the ritual implement he had personally refined and likewise integrated into his Heartlight Seal, was also there.
It was only that this ritual implement required a higher level to unleash greater might. At the level he was presently displaying, he could at most activate one or two grains.
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