Antarctica
The speeding train stopped amid the snow, and He Ao's true body, wearing a top hat, stepped down from the carriage.
He raised his head and glanced around.
Polar Night was still the same Polar Night, and the brilliant aurora still hung like curtains from the stars.
But the surrounding white glaciers were already covered in cracks. Enormous chunks of ice several meters tall lay scattered across the snow-covered ice like gravel.
Cracks half a meter wide spread across the entire icy expanse like a spiderweb, swallowing the scattered light into their depths.
These were minor impacts caused by a trace of power leaking from the Wheel of Stars when he had summoned it earlier.
He raised his hand, sensing the faint connection between himself and the Wheel of Stars.
His line of thought had not been wrong, but he had run into some "trouble" while solving the problem, causing the experiment to stall.
And while he was stuck, Hao Yi's avatar had discovered that youth who was about to "awaken."
In truth, He Ao had always been very interested in awakening.
There seemed to be no "awakening" in the Copy World. To become a transcendent, one could only consume a gentler formulated secret medicine and undergo "advancement."
Yet ordinary people in the Main World could obtain transcendent abilities directly without any preparation. Though there was a high chance of failure and mutation into monsters, the matter itself was quite "miraculous."
The mysticism knowledge He Ao possessed could not explain this phenomenon.
Although the Three Great Organizations of the Main World had also researched awakening, their final conclusion was only the simple statement that "awakening seems more inclined toward those who can 'sense' the transcendent."
This was already the limit of what the Main World could currently study.
However,