The moment his words fell, the taiji mask on Shi Yi's face radiated a sacred light, and an extraordinary aura of the Dao spread from it. In a single instant, the Holeless Mask formed from black and white qi underwent a qualitative leap.
Previously, any slightly stronger Cave Heaven Realm creature could force its divine sense through the mask's defenses and uncover Shi Yi's true face.
The only reason he had not been exposed yet was that he bore the reputation of a prodigy from a major power in the Mystic Domain. No one dared offend him lightly.
But that could not deter everyone. If nothing changed, the day would eventually come when he was exposed.
Now, the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, who stood in the Array Formation Realm, personally intervened, planting one powerful defensive formation after another within the taiji mask. Arranged together, they made the mask as impregnable as a city of iron walls and boiling moats.
Even an Array Formation King Marquis could not break through it. According to the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, only a Venerable could do so. Naturally, he had grounds for such confidence.
At that moment, the sacred light on the mask receded and vanished. Viewed from the outside, it looked exactly as it had before, without the slightest change.
But anyone probing it with divine sense would discover that the mask was unfathomable, vast as a sea of mist, impossible to see through.
Shi Yi beneath the mask, however, was unaffected by those formations. His vision, his ability to cast techniques... all remained unchanged.
The formations targeted only the outside world.
This change was immensely useful to Shi Yi. From now on, so long as he did not face a Venerable directly, he could act without restraint, no longer fearing that an