"Because the ritual was there."
The void outside, the lightward road built from Void Light Algae, the stone platform suspended at the end of the void, and the inverted ball of light above it were all components of a special ritual.
Even Feng's choice to place the treasure in "the void corresponding to the center of the Tidal Realm" was part of the ritual.
This ritual was called—Taiande's First Manifestation Ritual.
Taiande was a Whisperer who worshipped an evil god. Though he had been born in a remote primitive plane, he had obtained a great deal of ritual knowledge from the evil god's ravings. Later, wizards traveled to Taiande's plane and acquired this ancient Whisperer's stone-slab journal. They uncovered a vast amount of ritual information within it, all named with Taiande as a prefix, injecting much new blood into ritual studies.
Although rituals of the Taiande series were generally somewhat sinister and often connected to unclean evil gods, after thousands of years of analysis by countless wizards proficient in ritual studies, much of the evil nature within those rituals had been stripped away, leaving only their essential core. However, without that evil nature, many of the rituals were weaker than their original versions.
The First Manifestation Ritual was one of them.
Through all manner of prearranged ritual components, it could project a wisp of world will onto the ritual platform.
However, lacking the original version's evil nature, a ritual that had originally needed only two years to take shape was ultimately extended a hundredfold, only forming after two hundred years.
"Two hundred years?" Angel caught that point in time. Feng had hidden the treasure six hundred years ago, and two hundred years later, a void storm had appeared around it. That number was clearly no coincidence.
"Mr. Feng, did you