Taiyi held the jade slip and searched it carefully, but he could find no information about what had happened during that time!
The Shadow Fiend shook his head. "Because light and shadow oppose each other, the Shadow Realm has learned a little more about Dijun. But the Shadow Realm isn't all-knowing. There's no way it could uncover everything about him! What I can say for certain is that during the thousand years Dijun was missing, he likely went to a special world, one much like the Small World you created!"
"A Small World? Did Dijun create one too? Of course... With his intelligence, how could he not think to use the Demon Court Origin to create a Small World? The Demon Court came from the Supreme Treasure known as the Thirty-Three Heavens! Those thirty-three heavens were originally thirty-three Small Worlds. As the Demon Court's Destiny grew and countless resources were refined, those worlds were raised into thirty-three Middle Thousand Worlds! In the end, they merged into one Great Thousand World and formed the Demon Court at its height!
"Back then, the Demon Court Origin was equivalent to the Origin of a Great Thousand World! Using it to form special Small Worlds would have been easy! That's how I made a Small World where I could hide and await my revival. There's no reason Dijun wouldn't have thought of it, especially when he refined more of the Demon Court Origin than anyone!" Taiyi murmured as he thought it through.
The Shadow Fiend nodded faintly. "As you say, Dijun likely spent those thousand years in a world he created, just as you did. Such worlds are connected to the Primordial World. In the Shadow Realm, which is formed from the Primordial World's projection, those connections appear as deeper patches of black. Those