How cool is it that we got to go inside a Shiyu Pillar?

I haven't really heard much discussion about this part of S3 yet, but one of my big disappointments of S2 was how detached the main story felt from everything that had come before it.

S3 feels like a breath of fresh air in comparison. We get to hang out with the Cunning Hares again, we're entangled with OG void hunters, and possibly my favourite moment: we actually got to go inside a Shiyu Pillar.

It's just so nice to have known about these things since the very beginning, and actually be able to get up close to one. Some of the coolest vistas in S1 were the ones overlooking the Shiyu pillars, and the whole lore purpose of the Shiyu defense game mode is to protect these bad boys. It's smart writing to reuse existing story elements, and it finally feels like we're going back to some of the basic building blocks of this world in the latest season.