The scattered gray radiance spread from the rhombus-shaped crystal, filling He Ao's hand.
The brilliance resembled a delicate scalpel, slicing open space, slicing open the world, and slicing He Ao's hand, cut by cut.
Meanwhile, the radiant orange-gray light gathered in He Ao's pupils, forming nested rings as bright as incandescent lamps.
The moment those rays of light touched He Ao's skin, they were dissolved by an invisible force, scattering into nothingness.
He Ao gazed at Liu Zhengyun, who was lowering his head before him, and slowly exerted force, lifting the Eye of the World Fragment upward.
Buzz—
The entire study, shrouded in shadows, trembled at this instant, as if a hand stretched from the center of the space, grasping the power of the entire space.
He Ao ignored these spatial changes and continued to steadily exert upward force on the Eye of the World Fragment.
