"Sot, I know you have explosive strength."
Dai Lot looked at He Ao, the muscles across his body bulging. "I don't know where you got this power, but do you think I'll give you an opportunity as easily as Vistain did?"
Dense lines of rules emerged across his body, covering his entire frame in an instant. Then, as if alive, they wriggled and twisted, rapidly forming a complex regular dodecahedron pattern.
Immediately afterward, the pattern warped. Like a real regular dodecahedron, it began to writhe, twist, and struggle beneath Dai Lot's flesh, as though a ferocious beast were about to burst from the earth.
At that moment, Dai Lot raised both hands. Looking up at the sky, he shouted, "What I have seen: eternal darkness builds the cradle, and myriad stars nurture Order."
His shout instantly connected heaven and earth. The sky, which had only just regained a faint glimmer of light, darkened once more. A vague formation slowly emerged above the vault of heaven.
Countless bright, shining lines appeared from that faint formation. They linked together, interweaving and overlapping to form dense networks.
The stars vanished at that moment as well. A terrifying and magnificent gaze seemed to cross endless time and space to fall upon this place. Violent corruption descended upon the flame-covered land, enveloping the two figures at its center.
The sky trembled as though it were breathing. Endless worship and longing for Order rose from He Ao's heart.
Twisted yet "orderly" whispers echoed beside He Ao's ears.
The sounds were chaotic and disordered, yet He Ao seemed to hear some invisible "order" within them—an order built upon the bottom layer of the world, the order of the entire world.
He listened quietly to the voices, watching Dai Lot ahead of him as his left hand tightened