After Tao Ju took his leave, the rooftop banquet was winding down, and the important guests departed one after another. Tang Li did not linger either. Covered in a dense web of Burr Hook Lines, he slipped into the crowd of so-called East 824 District "elites."
As more people gathered and drew closer, some of the previously indistinct Law Hook Lines grew clearer, and the structures they revealed became more complex. Sorting them out demanded more mental effort, soon exceeding the limits of Tang Li's body and even the range of New Wildfire's control.
That was no obstacle for Ronan. With a shift of his thoughts, the structure formed where the Law Hook Lines, Altar Spider Web, and Tattered Divine Cloak adhered, overlapped, and extended into one another dissolved into something insubstantial. Yet it did not vanish. Instead, it underwent a "natural" transformation.
In an instant, the crowd around Tang Li, the high-rise beneath them, and even the more distant buildings, vehicles, roads, and the thousands upon thousands of living beings they held all became a dark starry sky.
This was the Life Starry Sky. Billions of stars representing nodes in living beings' Form and Spirit Frameworks formed its heart. Buildings, vehicles, and other lifeless things, along with the Law Hook Lines, the Curtain, and the "web," became dark clouds coiling around those stars.
And so the "starry sky" within Ronan's perception shone in answer to the starry sky of the True Universe.
The Life Starry Sky was far from clear. Dark clouds and shadows obscured many stars, proof that some information surrounding those living beings remained opaque to Ronan. Such a thing had seldom happened since he had made progress with the Eye Aperture Heart Lamp and grown more adept at Form-Spirit Coupling.
The Law Hook Lines that appeared