Little Crane carefully took out a Void Treasure Bottle.
The jade bottle grew faintly warm, as though it sensed a kindred power. The Seal Runes around its mouth lit up on their own, forming a tiny vortex.
Little Crane took a deep breath and aimed the bottle's mouth at the Light Cluster.
Strands of Heaven and Earth Origin were drawn into the bottle.
After it had taken in a hundred strands, its mouth sealed itself.
"One bottle can only hold a hundred strands?"
Little Crane looked at the jade bottle in her hand, then at the vast, sea-like expanse of Heaven and Earth Origin before her.
She took out every Void Treasure Bottle she had.
She had only two hundred Void Treasure Bottles in total.
And each one could hold only a hundred strands.
Soon, every Void Treasure Bottle in Little Crane's possession was full.
But would this much Heaven and Earth Origin be enough?
Along the way, she had witnessed too many sacrifices: the countless Skeletons on the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Road, the Sky Origin Hall Guardian Spirit's earnest hopes. Fang Chen was fighting a bloody battle even now. Everyone's hopes rested on these strands of Heaven and Earth Origin.
Little Crane recalled the fragments of memory left by the Void Crane Ancestor. The Void Crane Clan had joined the Heaven-Extermination War because the World Will was too powerful. Feeble strength alone could never shake it.
"If I could take a little more..."
Once the thought appeared, it spread like wild grass.
Little Crane's gaze burned.
She knew it was dangerous. If her theft was detected, it would alert the World Will.
"But if I succeed, we'll have enough Heaven and Earth Origin to change this world's fate completely!"
Greed and reason clashed fiercely in her mind.
In the end,