It did not take much effort. The crystal pillars of the Grand Array all began to sink, leaving behind only the liberated innate energy. I reached out and took the innate energy in my hand, feeling how weak its power had become after being overdrawn. Then I inscribed several Grand Arrays within it, using Seal to suppress its sentience.
When I emerged from the Grand Array, the child was already sprawled at the edge of the cliff, watching to see where I had gone. Clearly, this was not the first time she had done something like this. Even after I drifted down, she was still standing steadily and cheerfully at the cliff's edge, while a maid stayed beside her at all times. Clearly, the maid had been assigned to protect her personally.
With the innate energy already sealed, I took it out of my hand. Then I waved, and the smoke quickly reassembled, demonstrating how I would Seal the innate energy into her body and how she would eventually possess the power to shift mountains and fill seas, with images of racing through a sea of stars.
The child leaped for joy at the sight, then shook my hand, urging me to hurry and inject the innate energy into her.
I smiled, though a faint sorrow stirred in my heart.
I wondered whether Xue Qingcheng had obtained the innate energy back then. After all, I still had this wisp of energy in my hand.
Indeed, I hoped she had gotten it. She had once considered splitting the innate energy apart, because after being divided in two, it would not become so violently explosive. That was one of the ways to resolve the innate energy's rampage.
Unfortunately, Xue Qingcheng had not managed to obtain the innate energy and stand before me.