Inside the hotel room.
Xiao Sui sat cross-legged on the bed, her eyes quietly closed. Pale moonlight enveloped her body, brightening and dimming rhythmically as though it were breathing.
A calligraphy scroll floated before her, bearing the words, "Beneath the moon, a heavenly mirror flies; clouds rise and form a tower upon the sea."
"Still a long way to go..."
After a while, she slowly opened her eyes and sighed. "Even minor mastery of the way of Taiyin is so difficult. Who knows when I'll reach perfection, let alone Yin Reaching Its Extreme Gives Birth to Yang... Fortunately, I have the calligraphy Senior Lin bestowed on me. Otherwise, there would be no end in sight..."
The first calligraphy scroll Senior Lin had bestowed on her contained the perfected way of Taiyin.
But comprehending the Dao was extraordinarily difficult. Even with a ready-made reference before her, it was no easy task, particularly since she had previously cultivated the way of life-and-death reincarnation. Had she not separated that portion of her insights and transferred it to her Second Primordial Spirit, it would have interfered with her comprehension of the way of Taiyin.
"Hm?"
Suddenly-
A faint, flickering black radiance spread rapidly like ripples, shrouding everything it passed in shadows invisible to mortals. Only cultivators who had opened their Spirit Eye could see them.
"This..."
Xiao Sui's expression changed. Her pupils contracted as she stared at the shadows permeating the space around her. "A Demonic Fiend of the Outer Path's false demonic domain?"
When a cultivator summoned an Outer Demon's descent, an Outer-Demon Domain would form, distorting the surrounding area and separating it from reality. Though it appeared to overlap with the real world, mortals could not interact with it. Only cultivators could sense the domain's existence, and by protecting themselves with spiritual