This time, Wen Ke'er no longer resisted. She actively drew in more Rule Fragments, making the process of annihilation, stripping, and precipitation clear enough to perceive.
A faint gray-white halo began to appear around Wen Ke'er, so thin it was almost invisible.
It was neither the emerald green of her natural spirit light nor the silver of spatial fluctuations. Its color felt older and emptier, tinged with a faint sense of deathly stillness.
As the wave processed rule powers of different attributes inside her, tiny traces of their original colors flickered through the gray-white halo. Each vanished in an instant, swallowed and assimilated by the gray-white glow. It was as though the fragments had been washed clean of their attributes, leaving only their most basic rule structure.
At the same time, Wen Ke'er's aura began to change in a way that was hard to describe.
Her power had not grown stronger. In fact, so much of it was being processed that it seemed sluggish and unstable. Yet another presence was becoming clearer within her—subtler, deeper, and imbued with an ancient chill.
Strangely, it seemed to have found the faintest trace of harmony with the rule-laden atmosphere permeating the void Beyond the World.
It no longer clashed with that atmosphere as it had before.
She seemed to have become a strange converter. External rule power flowed in, passed through some unknown mechanism inside her, and left behind something incomprehensible. In the process, her aura gained an eerie degree of compatibility with the environment Beyond the World.
The change was extremely slow and subtle, but it was undeniably happening.
Standing nearby, Shen Yi's gaze sharpened. He stared at the thin gray-white halo and the minute shift in Wen Ke'er's aura, as though he had glimpsed something vitally important—something that might even overturn