"Is she your property?"
Immediately after, a message carrying a clear intent to trade was thrown straight at Shen Yi.
"Hand that elf over to me, and I can pay you with rule fragments of decent quality."
"The fire rule on her is very suitable for optimizing my cultivation sequence."
Before Shen Yi's expression could change, Lilith's voice rang out.
"The common currency and hard currency Beyond the World are all kinds of rule fragments."
"They come from a wide range of sources, whether remnants after a world's destruction, natural condensations from certain special events or areas, or even things stripped from certain existences..."
"The more complete, powerful, or rare a rule fragment is, the higher its value, and the more precious the things it can be exchanged for."
"Resources, information, safe shelter, even certain services can all be settled with rule fragments..."
"Normally, with Xilos's level, there's absolutely no way she could enter Beyond the World. He's treating her as your spoils."
"Though I suppose there's nothing wrong with that..."
Shen Yi did not respond to that person's earlier proposal to trade.
His attention was drawn to the biomass armor as the creature turned sideways, and to the scene revealed behind it.
Behind that seemingly thin body was connected a structure so vast it was almost unimaginable.
It was a gigantic nest system made up of hundreds of millions, even billions, of translucent "follicle"-like containers.
Inside every follicle surged energies or substances of varying forms. In some, the outlines of unformed creatures could even be faintly seen.
Those follicles were linked to the creature's main body before him through countless fine energy veins, like an ultra-giant biological reactor or cultivation factory, continuously supplying it with some vast yet restrained fundamental power.
So that was it!
Shen Yi suddenly understood.