Qin Chuan held out his hand, palm up.
A gray-white egg appeared and rested quietly in his palm.
The moment it appeared, the violent Void energy storms around him stalled for an instant, as though they had encountered something of a higher order.
Just as I thought.
Qin Chuan hesitated no longer.
He did not throw the egg straight into the chaotic Energy Core. That would have been reckless.
A dim light glowed at his fingertip. Shadow Divine Power mingled with his new understanding of Space Law, forming a thread too fine to see. One end connected to the Void Egg, while the other pierced a node where the Void Vortex's energy flow was at its purest.
Qin Chuan intended to build a dedicated conduit.
Bzzz—
The Void Egg trembled faintly.
Void energy of extraordinary purity was forcibly drawn through the shadow thread Qin Chuan had constructed and poured into the egg in an unbroken stream.
Slowly but steadily, the gray-white shell began turning a deep black.
The ancient life that had slept for billions of years had finally tasted a feast suited to it.
But Qin Chuan's theft had thoroughly enraged the master of this Void.
Thump!!!
In the distance, the Void Heart contracted sharply, then gave a violent beat!
The entire dark vortex erupted!
"Roar—!!!"
A shriek filled with madness and hatred rang out from the vortex's depths.
Then countless monsters swarmed out of the darkness.
They had no fixed form. Some looked like twisted flesh fused with metal pipes. Others were masses of black sludge covered in wailing faces. Still others were misshapen creatures with limbs joined in all the wrong places.
They had only one goal: to tear apart the intruder who dared steal Void energy.
The storm rushed toward Qin Chuan, but he did not