"Snap~"
With a light snap of her fingers, the "Ancient Guardian," who had been happily teasing Xiao Yu, suddenly turned her head. An inconceivable emotion emerged from that shapeless shell.
Then, the next moment, as sparks of electricity leaped from her fingers, the entire bubble universe abruptly froze, and everything ground to a halt.
The energy ripples flowing across the "bubble" barrier solidified into rigid patterns.
Inside the "bubble," the faint light flickering across Gao Gong's conceptual body as he had just attempted to move was "nailed" in place, as though it had become a three-dimensional still image of astonishing precision.
Not far away, the Ancient Guardian's shock, which had just erupted, along with her violently turning, invisible energy shell, was completely "fixed" in place.
Xiao Yu was likewise sealed within the Ancient Guardian's enveloping radiance, like an insect trapped in amber.
The extension of the light and every shift between brightness and darkness all froze in the state of that single instant.
Time failed here.
Space solidified here.
Energy fell silent here.
The seventh-tier fluctuations around the Ancient Guardian and the "cornerstone" glow in Xiao Yu's eyes were all fixed in place.
Gao Gong even felt as though he had once again entered the "Far-Beyond Elevator."
That had been an experience that likewise transcended the bounds of conventional universal reality.
Upon entering the "Far-Beyond Elevator," he had left the familiar framework of the "main universe" and entered a strange state in which all conventional concepts began to fail and peel away. First, matter, energy, and spacetime in his perception had gradually "returned to nothingness." Then even the concept of "nothingness" itself had begun to blur and thin, until it seemed about to "vanish completely," plunging into an absolute unknown that even "void" could not describe.
But all the sensations