As they waited for Lilith and Alvin to finish talking, Winnie's and Xilos's auras had completely steadied, and they gradually adapted to the special environment of the void Beyond the World—that omnipresent mix of rule debris and chaotic breath.
Shen Yi, meanwhile, stayed alone in a relatively safe area, settling his mind as he attempted to explore and control the Flame of Continued Combustion on a deeper level.
What he had tried before was mainly the Flame of Continued Combustion's deprivation and suppression of the concept of "heat," as well as its "weakening" or "neutralizing" effect on other rule powers.
But his instincts told him that this power, which came from the root of the world, had far more potential than that.
He closed his eyes and focused, sinking his consciousness into the incandescent fire origin within his body, like an eternal blazing sun.
He tried to stop treating the Flame of Continued Combustion merely as a power to be "released" outward, or as something to which certain traits could be attached. Instead, he tried to make his own existence itself fuse more deeply with this rule.
The inspiration for this idea came from observing Alvin's battle with Gor.
Alvin seemed to have a massive body, and he was also connected to countless egg sacs.
But his true core—or rather, the main body of his consciousness—was not actually bloated. Those egg sacs were more like power furnaces and resource vaults extended outward through some intricate rule connection.
This was a highly rule-based, functionally differentiated form of existence.
Shen Yi began to try.
He guided the origin of the Flame of Continued Combustion within him, rebuilding the foundation of his material existence.
This was an extremely bold and dangerous attempt. It required absolute control over the Flame of Continued Combustion, as