In the Puppet Domain, Chu Mo looked at the apprehensive Sui Ming and smiled softly. Knowing he still had doubts, Chu Mo said, "Whether it works or not, why not feel it for yourself, fellow Daoist?"
Sui Ming hesitated, then glanced at Spider Mother beside him. Seeing her perfectly composed expression, he turned back. "Very well, I'll trust you this once, fellow Daoist. What do you need me to do?"
"Nothing at all."
"Nothing at all?"
Sui Ming was puzzled. Then he saw Chu Mo raise a finger and point it toward him. In an instant, a lofty, profound mystery manifested at his fingertip.
Chu Mo activated the Yin and Yang Half-Symbol, directly invoking the power of "Authority."
In the Void Sea, the Half-Symbols formed from the three Sacred Venerables were merely Knockoff Symbols. They possessed a tiny sliver of a true Symbol's standing, but were fundamentally inferior goods, utterly incapable of the near-omnipotence of true Symbols.
But this was the Cosmos Sea, the place where it had been perfected. Thus, within the Cosmos Sea, the Yin and Yang Half-Symbol possessed a power akin to certain administrator privileges.
Spider Mother, Sui Ming, and the other native Seventh Realm beings were bound to the Cosmos Sea partly because each had a "shadow" in the former Shadow World, and partly simply because of the Cosmos Sea's rules.
Their "shadows" had already returned to them. Now, Chu Mo only needed to alter those rules.
His finger descended, touching Sui Ming between the brows.
"Th-this-" Sui Ming stared, dumbfounded. "That's it?"
One touch of a finger had solved the problem that had plagued him his entire life? What did all his years of effort amount to, then? Could all Heavenly Domain cultivators be this powerful?
Ignoring the still-stunned Sui Ming, Chu Mo extended his