Zhang Yu returned to the Pure Profound Dao Palace after seeing that the Upper Layer's overall situation had stabilized. Once more, he turned the Power of Controlling the Center, using the power of the High One and the Great Chaos to draw in Supreme Aura.
This time, however, he encountered no interference whatsoever.
This proved that Primordial Unity Celestial Palace had not detected this attempt.
Still, he suspected that Primordial Unity Celestial Palace might have formed some guesses. Yet no matter what scheme they were harboring, so long as they did not truly move to stop him, that was the best possible outcome.
Once he obtained Supreme Aura and amassed enough of it, he would have something to rely on when facing Primordial Unity Celestial Palace.
After more than ten days of cautious ritual extraction, he successfully drew a wisp of Supreme Aura from the High One. The instant he beheld it, he felt an exceptionally different and profound mystery, as though it could exhaust all principles under heaven; using this aura, he seemed able to climb along with it, ascending beyond the Heavenly Dao.
A faint divine light flashed in his eyes. He knew that, under the resonance of the Six Seals of the Great Dao, he had vaguely discerned the fundamental essence of this aura.
If so, perhaps upper-realm great powers could use this aura to reach an even higher realm?
He pondered for a while. Primordial Unity Celestial Palace should have grasped Supreme Aura long ago, yet they still used the Dao Contest to drive their struggle for the higher Dao. Either they had already tried this path and found it impassable, or the Dao Contest was the best choice—or perhaps the two were entangled in some other way.
After thinking it over carefully, he decided that