I looked toward the molten core. Sure enough, there seemed to be a black dot floating there, but it was too far away to make out what it was. The heat waves here scorched the heavens, making energy detection completely unreliable. Even if hundreds of immortals watched you from afar, as long as you could not see them, you would not sense their presence.
"I'll go take a look." Pale Monarch finished speaking indifferently and flew toward the black dot in an instant.
Han Shanshan pondered aloud, "So close to the molten core—don't you feel the heat? This thing is extremely dangerous. It grows by devouring, and all the energy in this space is its nourishment. Or rather... even from this distance, it's still only a black dot. It should be a huge chunk."
Pale Monarch soon drifted over there. As Han Shanshan had said, once Pale Monarch reached that place, he looked no bigger than a speck of dust. The difference between him and the black dot was enormous.
"It seems there aren't just black dots here. There are some much farther away... Some of them are already faintly appearing inside the thermal core..." Han Shanshan suddenly floated toward another area. Once she stopped, she pointed at one location within the molten core.
I continued carving the runes, but I still could not stop my expression from changing. "Could it be that while we were away, someone set up some Grand Array here?"
"Over the years, to isolate the connection between the thermal core and Heavenly City, Qianqian has been repairing the spatial rifts. Only some areas remain connected to the thermal core, and all of them are for our development of Heavenly Dao crystals. I never thought someone would set up a Grand Array in the surrounding area."