Within the absolute darkness at the core of the slowly rotating Chaos Star Vortex, an exceedingly tiny point of silver-white light suddenly lit up without warning! The light was faint, yet it carried a cold sense of logic utterly different from the Chaos Star Radiance!
Immediately afterward, like a stone cast onto water, that point of silver-white light instantly projected a constantly shifting, flowing three-dimensional star map made of countless tiny light spots and lines across the dark "curtain" at the vortex's core!
The star map was complex and mysterious. Most of it was covered by flowing Chaos Star Radiance, making it difficult to discern. Yet one corner had been magnified and brought into crystal-clear focus!
It was a dragon-shaped ley line tightly bound by layers of phantom purple-gold chains! At the ends of the chains, a phantom White Jade Talisman emitting a cold white glow and inscribed with the three ancient seal-script characters "Imperial Edict: Seal" hung Above the Nine Heavens! Beneath the talisman, an extremely tiny anchor rune formed from countless dark gold threads pulsed like a heart, continuously drawing power from the dragon-shaped ley line!
It was precisely the shackles Ying Zheng had seen with his own eyes through the demonic manifestation's transmission! But the star map was now even more detailed and cold, like the most precise scan imaginable!
Even more horrifyingly, at the edge of the star map, in the region representing Above the Nine Heavens, several far larger and colder phantom White Jade Talismans emitting Heavenly Dao auras of different attributes slowly shifted from illusion into reality like startled stars! Countless faint, nearly imperceptible probing fluctuations spread silently through layer upon layer of space like invisible tentacles, creeping toward Mount Li, toward the Chaos Star Vortex...
The star map flashed away, and the silver-white