"Tap, tap..."
Nothing unexpected happened. Di Yi passed through the chaotic mist with ease and stepped onto the only passage leading to the Ancient Sacred Academy.
He advanced step by step, his footsteps crisp as he followed the path toward the end of the chaos.
He had once heard the white-haired, youthful-faced elder say that the journey to the other shore alone was a different kind of cultivation. Now, that indeed seemed to be the case.
As he walked, he sensed fluctuations in the Dao and principles of heaven and earth. Being here gave him the feeling of merging with the vast world.
"Interesting..."
Di Yi slowed his steps. Amid the fluctuations in the Dao and principles of heaven and earth, he heard a certain divine voice-the lingering traces of ancient Divine Saints expounding the Dao, which he had picked up.
Unfortunately, these lingering traces were of little help to him. Beyond allowing him to understand divine radiance and runes from the perspective of the creatures of this newborn world, they held no deeper significance.
"Have I reached the end?"
For ordinary creatures, the road to the Ancient Sacred Academy was very, very long. They seemed to be advancing, but from an observer's perspective, they had actually taken only a few steps.
It was as though it would never end, with no telling where it led.
For Di Yi, however, this road did have an end, and he now stood just outside it.
Ahead, amid the spreading chaos, a gateway formed from endlessly spiraling, vortex-like matter stretched across the way, barring passage.
"The repelling force is strong, but its scale is about the same as that gateway in the Hundred Broken Mountains..." Di Yi looked at the gateway. After sensing it briefly, he unleashed the Fire-Crowned Lotus Precious Technique, passing