Having made up his mind, Zhang Yu cast another glance over the various continental lodges of Celestial Xia. Seeing that nothing was amiss for the time being, he summoned the divine attendant on duty in the palace and gave a few instructions.
After speaking, he rose from the jade platform. With a turn of his thoughts, he arrived in the depths of the Clear Firmament Ark in an instant. He now stood upon an endless level plain. This place had seemed to be a chaos originally, but the moment he entered, his mind reached outward and stabilized the dimensions of heaven, giving rise to distinctions of above, below, and every direction.
What heaven and earth presented was the manifestation of his understanding of the external scene. This was also what he was willing to accept. He understood that if he came to comprehend it through another principle, the sight before him would become something else entirely.
Standing there and sensing the vast, surging Clear Vault Aura surrounding him, he felt as though he himself had merged into it, and all manner of insights welled up within his heart.
After standing there for a while, he looked ahead. There was a drifting mass of clear qi, its edges spreading out faintly like diluted ink wash. That was the place through which one could go to meet the Regents.
The last time he had come, he had entered the gateway directly by relying on the golden talismans granted by the five Regents. This time, however, since he had already been here before, he no longer needed the aid of those golden talismans. A turn of his thoughts was enough to bring him here.
At this moment, he fixed his gaze on that mass of clear qi, deep in thought.
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