Huang Yuanli soon focused her attention on one of the gazes.
Among those five unfathomable gazes, one stood out far too much.
It was unlike the others, which seemed like background stares or the embrace of the void. It was active and sharp, carrying an unquestionable, almost "dissecting" aggression.
The instant her perception touched it, Huang Yuanli felt a cold sense of exposure originating from the very foundation of her existence.
That gaze did not seem to be looking at her soul, divine might, or fluctuations of law. It was peering through her—in a brutally unreasonable manner—starting with the most outwardly apparent divine radiance of the cycle of withering and flourishing emitted by the authority of the "Eternal Corrosion End-Mother," then stripping backward layer by layer and delving deeper.
She felt the energy pathways formed from billions upon billions of spirit leaves and ancient growth rings being precisely dissected under that gaze by an invisible scalpel. Their operating principles, node strength, circulation efficiency... each aspect was instantly analyzed and assessed.
She felt that even the symbiotic spirit-vein network she had built with the starfield beneath her over countless years—the way its connections worked, the frequency of its energy exchanges, and even the ancient memory fragments of planets deposited deep within the spirit veins—was effortlessly "scanned" by the aftershocks of that gaze, stirring fine, uncontrollable ripples.
"You want to look? Fine! Then look all you want!"
Without a word, her vast will drove her immense divine power.
The interwoven emerald and withered-yellow radiance that had been slightly restrained out of caution suddenly blazed! It was no longer merely a display or deterrent, but transformed into an active, surging torrent of counterattack.
The dark-yellow radiance representing "eternal decay," as deep as an ancient tree in its twilight years, and the gray-white sheen