"Interesting... a living, breathing tunnel through time?" An said thoughtfully. "Though theories suggest that spacetime is parallel and continuous, no one has ever truly been able to prove it."
"You can't either?" Xia Fan asked curiously. By "you," he did not mean humans, but the pure consciousness entities that had crossed the boundary.
"There is no communication between Chaos entities. The only means of communication is devouring."
That was absolutely fresh intelligence.
After all, humanity could not even touch that domain.
Even Thought Control was drawn in. "You mean... although many Chaos entities drift through space, they remain silent toward one another?"
"That is not difficult to understand." An nodded. "Chaos entities cannot simply be regarded as the same species. Their differences are no smaller than those between humans and paramecia."
The difference between higher vertebrates and single-celled protozoa?
Xia Fan was greatly astonished.
After all, these Chaos entities had all evolved from humans.
"I understand." Thought Control clapped its hands. "It is temperament, and it is also environment."
Temperament? Xia Fan frowned slightly. Temperament was a Sorcery Art term; hearing it here made it seem rather ancient and outdated. After all, Jinxia City had already shattered too many entrenched notions, such as awakened people being limited in number, or Sorcery Arts being impossible to learn across regions...
"But temperament still creates differences," Thought Control said, as if it had read Xia Fan's mind. "At its root, qi is a fundamental energy governed by consciousness, while the wills of living beings come in every conceivable variety. If Chaos entities are truly as Miss An described, then they must also have things they excel at and things they do not. For instance, some may be better at sensing gravity, while others may be better with dimensions. In that case, the worlds