Xilos could only clench her fists, her crimson eyes fixed unblinkingly on Shen Yi. As she sensed the changes in the aura within him, which was growing so unfathomable that even she could no longer perceive it clearly, anxiety burned in her heart.
Byron and Aoyue remained silent as well.
They understood better than Xilos what Enrosis had sacrificed, and what that wisp of Authority radiance meant.
At that moment, any words would have felt hollow.
Their gazes likewise rested on Shen Yi, carrying a trace of hope they themselves might not have noticed.
Time passed slowly and heavily in this side chamber of the Hidden Light Hall, shrouded in its strange atmosphere.
Within Shen Yi's mental world.
Ever since he had drawn that light into his body, an irresistible force had begun enveloping his consciousness, dragging it into a strange state beyond ordinary perception.
Around him, the side chamber of the Hidden Light Hall, Enrosis's pale face, Xilos's worried gaze, and the shocked expressions of Byron and Aoyue peeled away piece by piece like a shattered mirror, then vanished.
In their place came a rapid succession of surreal shifts, with time and space thrown out of alignment.
Countless images and streams of information seemed to wash over his consciousness like a flood bursting through a dam.
He saw the seven towering halls of the Immortal Sacred Land dim beneath the onslaught of overwhelming black fog and chaotic laws. The halls collapsed, and the figures of those mighty hall masters, guardians, and Authority Holders struggled in the black tide before being obliterated.
He saw the void of Beyond the World swallowed by an unprecedented surge of black fog. Stars went dark, laws collapsed, and the remnants of countless worlds were ground to dust.
He saw Authority Holders both familiar and