After finishing that chapter yesterday, I felt utterly exhausted and thought I would take a nap. Instead, I slept until evening and woke up dizzy and muddleheaded. I thought it was two months of accumulated fatigue, but after dinner, I discovered that I had caught a cold and come down with a fever. My plan to build up a chapter of saved drafts had gone bankrupt again.
I got up early today, so here is an early update in exchange for monthly votes~
As Shi Xuan took this step, the body formed from his Dao Heart became like a bright moon, radiating brilliant light. Its pure glow illuminated the dark, empty world with grandeur yet elegance and gentleness. The profound darkness retreated step by step, as if it were being devoured by wave after wave of clear moonlight.
At last, beneath the shining clear radiance, the void trembled and crack after crack appeared, breaking it into pieces.
Through those cracks, Shi Xuan's Dao Heart incarnation could see the ordinary darkness outside. It was not so deep and empty, and at the end of that ordinary darkness flickered a point of light, seemingly black and white, incomparably familiar.
"Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light!" Shi Xuan recognized at once that the light originated from the foundation of his own Primordial Spirit. He immediately understood that Dao Heart Decay had dragged his Primordial Spirit consciousness into the deepest, heaviest, darkest place within his own Dao Heart. If he feared hardship or could not withstand temptation, he would certainly fail to endure the Great Dao interrogation and remain forever imprisoned within this dark emptiness. Externally, that would manifest as total madness.
Normally, overcoming Dao Heart Decay was a process that was not short. Even the complete madness that erupted afterward progressed step by