Meanwhile, Xu Taiping.
Boom...!
After he entered the passage opened by the Sky Demon Token, the explosive sounds beside his ears abruptly ceased. Both the sights before his eyes and the sounds around him dissolved into nothingness.
The sensation was much like what he had experienced upon first entering the Wilderness.
He could even faintly sense a familiar trace of presence drifting through this deathly silent world.
A thought suddenly stirred in Xu Taiping's mind, and he asked tentatively:
"Venerable Jiaye?"
But the world remained deathly silent, offering no response.
Xu Taiping could not help saying with some amusement:
"It seems I was overthinking things."
Yet no sooner had the words left his mouth than a familiar voice rang out in this deathly silent world:
"I am here."
The voice belonged to none other than Venerable Jiaye.
At the same time, the phantom image of a Golden Buddha Statue gradually appeared before Xu Taiping.
Delight immediately stirred in Xu Taiping's heart, and he said:
"Venerable Jiaye, you really can enter this passage?!"
The Golden Buddha Statue that Venerable Jiaye had manifested smiled.
"The Wilderness already connects the Three Realms of Shangqing. Apart from the sealed passage between the Lower Realm and the Upper Realm, this old monk can appear in any passage connecting the Three Realms."
Xu Taiping nodded in understanding.
Then Venerable Jiaye continued:
"Benefactor Taiping, you have opened a passage to the Heaven-Demon Battlefield for the Five Heavens. This is a deed of supreme merit."
"This old monk has appeared to place that merit in your hands."
As he spoke, the Golden Buddha Statue abruptly turned his palm downward, and a somewhat worn cloth bag fell from it.
Xu Taiping caught the cloth bag.
When he opened it, he found that it was filled with millet.
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