The Wolf Knight Statue's voice came first, Bai Zhou's after. The last words still hummed and echoed between the stone pillars of the temple when, beneath the skylight in the dome, Great Sacrifice's eyelids suddenly trembled.
"Bzz!!"
In an instant, a point of "light" that could not be defined by any color silently emerged in the dome above the skylight, making the light throughout the entire temple seem to bow before it and gather around it.
This light was tiny in shape, yet upon closer inspection, it seemed infinitely vast. His vision was filled with light as though from an entire world, with no end in sight.
When he closed his eyes, the shape of that point of light naturally surfaced in his heart—it was an ancient, noble seal, neither jade nor not jade. Looking closer, he would discover that this seal was not made from any material, but from countless mysterious lines finer than hairs, flowing without cease. Every line seemed to be blended from innumerable colors, hazy and unimaginably complex.
With Bai Zhou's current level of brain activity, he could not even discern the paths of those lines.
When he opened his eyes again and looked at the point of light in reality, Bai Zhou abruptly realized that it had slowly descended above his head. The surrounding scenery seemed to twist and blur.
The temple's stone walls, the ancient trees that reached the heavens, and the flowing air all rippled gently around that point of light like waves on water.
This was the [Celestial Pivot].
It seemed inseparable from the world, a part of the world's essence, yet it also seemed to be a world unto itself—infinitesimal and boundlessly vast at once. It was hard to imagine what precious materials Troy Civilization had used back then, and what