All in all, perhaps because Yu Lian's heart was already filled with warmth, his spiritual perception spread through the mental universe formed by the swarm's collective will, as though he were swimming through his own sea of consciousness.
He quickly touched the core at the center of this universe.
Within that cosmic core, which seemed to gather the thoughts and information of countless swarm lords, inside that "silver heart" where countless lights converged, the scene of a material world gradually came into sharp focus.
A girl in a pure white dress sat cross-legged on a fragment of an icy asteroid, carefully fiddling with something that looked like an oversized crab claw. Floating in the space before her was the corpse of a giant beast, two or three hundred meters long. Starlight fell upon it, imbuing its lifeless body with a layer of luxurious radiance.
The enormous carcass, which should have looked ugly, broken, and twisted, now somehow resembled a priceless, oversized silver ingot.
Tens of thousands of worker bees were scrambling all over the corpse, like ants taking apart a huge piece of prey.
It was the corpse of an old Liumai dragon.
Come to think of it, were there still wild, elderly star dragons in the heart of the Empire? Or had she ambushed a Starrealm Knight and actually gotten away with it?
Wow, Shali, you've really gotten good!
Yu Lian felt an even greater sense of warmth toward her.
Come to think of it... whenever he'd had a chance to interact with Shali, he'd always been seeing red and wanting to shout at the girl, but this was the first time he'd felt such warmth toward her. Now that he'd calmed down and taken a good look, he realized the little girl was actually pretty cute. She had