Deep within the "Cloud Top World," in the "Mirror Starry Sky" amid the "Karmic Poison Sea," the nearly formless "information lead gray" continued its slow work of coating, arranging, and filling in details.
Azure and dark-red "starlight" shone across the void, war fortresses and asteroids pursued one another, and the "Light Tracks" left by moving Great Lord Level powerhouses marked clear trails through it all.
In a daze, one could almost feel the thermal radiation of the high-energy streams of light, and the spiritual pressure permeating the void.
The relatively orderly spacetime framework still could not keep out the "evil poison." But this was a "High-Imitation Two-Star Gate Battlefield" to begin with; the presence of "evil poison" was only natural.
Leading directly from here to the "Abyss Zone," the violent turbulence and the "starry sky" Everlasting Configuration embedded within it were perhaps the greatest differences between this entire framework and the circumstances back then.
Ronan needed this construction to distinguish "reality" from "dreamscape," or to blur the two and shift between them.
One thing required attention, however: the "evil poison" was attempting to spill across this boundary and invade the "Abyss Zone"... This, too, was part of "playing with fire."
He needed this unusual and dangerous environment to verify certain things.
Ronan silently recited—and could only silently recite—the syllable for "I."
It was the character for "I" in the "Overrun Divine Script," reportedly the utmost that beings other than ancient gods could comprehend. In the Tian Yuan Empire, it bore the titles "True Inheritance Divine Script" and "Nation-Suppressing Divine Talisman."
Ronan had first learned it from a photograph of Grandfather and his father—well, with Raven's demonstration helping him along. Later, he had discovered the basic outline of this "I" character in the "Virtual Brain" app of the "External Neuron." After