The Ghost Qi around Qi Yun had yet to dissipate as he held the Soul Refining Banner.
He stepped into the most magnificent, dusky yellow Main Hall.
The magnificent splendor and solemn Buddha statues he had anticipated were nowhere to be seen.
The hall was utterly bare. As far as the eye could see, there was only a void-like expanse.
There were no Buddha statues, no meditation mats, no incense burners—not even a single supporting pillar could be seen.
There was only an endless, dusky yellow backdrop and the omnipresent, heavy pressure of Earth Evil Qi.
"Hmm?" Qi Yun's brow furrowed. His Divine Sense swept across the entire hall like quicksilver, but it still came up empty.
'Did I guess wrong?'
'Is the core not here?'
'Or could it be…'
Just as he was wondering to himself,
in the center of the Main Hall, the dusky yellow void began to ripple like water.
A speck of golden light appeared, then rapidly expanded and coalesced.
