In the Abyss Sect Master's cultivation chamber.
As Luo Shen was studying the secret patterns contained within the Sky-Covering Great Hand, an invisible ripple suddenly descended. He felt as though everything had frozen. No, that was not right—it was he himself who had frozen. All his avatars, whether scattered throughout the Imperial Capital of the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom, the Dream Domain, or the Primordial Universe, had all stopped at this very moment in time.
Only his Mind Will remained capable of moving.
Luo Shen immediately realized that the Sky-Covering Great Hand was the cause. Without hesitation, his conscious will probed toward the Sky-Covering Great Hand within his mind.
"Buzz!"
Though it was his own sea of consciousness, Luo Shen felt as if his conscious will had arrived before a tightly shut door, while his Mind Will was trying to push it open.
At first, the passage was extremely narrow, barely wide enough for one person. Then suddenly, everything opened up!
At last, Luo Shen entered his vastly transformed sea of consciousness. The Sky-Covering Great Hand was no longer in its former illusory state. It had become something tangible and real. No, it could not exactly be called real—it was a form of existence suspended between reality and illusion.
Luo Shen found it difficult to describe the feeling in words.
His Mind Will could touch the Sky-Covering Great Hand, but when he tried to "look" at it with conscious will alone, it seemed not to exist at all. Even though its scales were pitch-black and glimmered with a blood-red light, naturally affecting everything within his sea of consciousness.
Yet Luo Shen had a vague feeling that it did not truly exist. Or rather, what Luo Shen observed was merely the external form it manifested.
The Sky-Covering Great Hand carried an