Within the Mountain and River State Map, Yi Shuyuan had ingeniously allowed the Celestial River's star power to pass directly through the world inside the painting. The place where he and the many divine beings of the Heavenly Realm stood was the overlap between the Celestial River and the Mountain and River State Map.
They were both within the Celestial River and outside this world!
With the 108 divine beings whose destinies matched the corresponding copies of the Earth Scroll Book, together with the fusion of the Mountain and River State Map and the Celestial River's power, and with Yi Shuyuan's own magic and the Heaven-Turning Furnace at the core, they had truly reached the point where the small revealed the great, and the great answered the small.
At that moment, heaven and earth revealed a corner of their Dao-body for the giant, the realm bore his will, and a furnace refined heaven and earth!
What seemed a smooth transition had in fact been an extraordinarily perilous first step. Perhaps the Celestial Court had been destined for this, or perhaps Yi Shuyuan had simply handled it very well; either way, the danger had passed without disaster.
Yi Shuyuan was now both within the long river of star power and standing atop a mountain, with the Heaven-Turning Furnace before him.
There had originally been an alchemy furnace in this spot, one that had already existed within the painting back then. It had merely concealed itself now.
Yi Shuyuan casually swept his fan toward the furnace. The flames inside immediately blazed more fiercely, and metallic essence continually spilled from the many damaged furnaces around it, streak after streak of light flying toward the Heaven-Turning Furnace.
This first step was naturally to refine the furnace. Yet even a furnace that possessed the proper