Only after a long while did he let out a quiet sigh.
Picking up the black box, he turned and headed upstairs, the tapping of his footsteps fading into the distance.
Silence returned to the attic.
In the cultivation room, Liu Yu sat cross-legged with the black box resting on his knees.
He closed his eyes, sank his consciousness into his Niwan Palace, and touched the Emerald Light Dot.
A familiar pull came over him. The spirit pressure around him abruptly dropped as his primordial spirit entered the Immortal Mansion World.
When Liu Yu came to his senses, he had once again become a small red ball of light within the Azure Barrier, with the black box floating nearby.
Beyond the barrier lay the same endless dark void, as though it had been that way since time immemorial.
Compared with his first visit, however, there was now a faint, hazy glow: a blue star the size of a grain of rice had appeared in the darkness.
Judging by sensation alone, the star seemed to exist infinitely far away, somewhere unknowable and impossible to truly touch.
The spirit grasses and herbs in the Black Spirit Field grew luxuriantly. The three small wooden cabins remained unchanged, and wisps of spiritual energy rose from the mouth of the Mottled Ancient Well.
Looking at this scene, Liu Yu felt especially at ease, almost as though he had come home.
After silently checking the spirit grasses and herbs, he "grasped" the black box and followed that incomparably close, unseen connection to exercise his authority within the Immortal Mansion World.
The next instant, Liu Yu felt his spiritual awareness rise without limit!
It was as though he stood above all things!
Following the starlight shining down from infinitely far away, he vanished from the spot