"The place this leads to doesn't seem to be just the Upper Realm..."
As he traveled through the passage, Di Yi realized that the Upper Realm might only be one stop along the Cross of Yin and Yang passage. If he kept going, there were other places beyond it.
But Di Yi had no intention of going there, because that was not the destination of this journey.
They traveled onward, climbing along this road. Compared with Di Yi's leisurely stroll through a courtyard, the Golden Hou's journey was far less comfortable.
Here, its senses had already dulled and failed, and it had the strange feeling of time shifting and space slipping out of alignment.
Besides that, terrifying power kept pressing down on it along this road, as though it carried a great star on its back. Had it not been able to undergo "Reincarnation" all along, its body and spirit would have shattered long ago.
"Big brother, we seem to be nearing the end..." The Golden Hou had already lost track of the days, but now it saw a stretch of ruins ahead, clearly something outside the passage.
"Yes, we're almost at the Upper Realm." Di Yi nodded.
At the same time, as Di Yi and the Golden Hou approached the end of the passage, extraordinary phenomena surged through the real world of the Upper Realm.
A great black river could be seen surging in torrents, along with a great golden river that thundered and roared. They crossed one another, forming a gateway.
Boom!
Without Di Yi having to act, the gateway opened on its own. Hazy Chaos Qi refracted the real world outside, making it look unreal.
"Is this the Upper Realm?" The Golden Hou rushed out of the passage in high spirits, but before it could steady itself,