Xia Ping placed the Heaven-Swallowing Elephant Totem on the ground and studied it carefully.
At that moment, his spiritual sense had grown significantly stronger, more than twice as powerful as before. He immediately realized that this totem was extraordinary.
Vaguely, he sensed an elusive aura emanating from the totem. It seemed capable of influencing the world, warping the air and producing strange, mysterious illusions.
After an unknown amount of time, Xia Ping's spiritual sense had explored every corner of the totem and studied each line etched upon it. It seemed that this process had fulfilled some kind of condition, stirring the totem's energy.
At once, the entire world seemed to undergo a tremendous transformation. It was as if he had fallen into a lifelike environment. The stars shifted, and he suddenly found himself in the cosmos.
He stood in the vacuum, surrounded by countless glittering stars.
A colossal elephant appeared before him. No one could imagine just how enormous it was. Even a star would have looked like a glass marble beside it.
All four of its feet stood in the void. It raised its long trunk, and tremendous energy surged around its body, as if forming a black hole.
"What's going on? It's cultivating—it's breathing?!"
Xia Ping stared at the unimaginable giant elephant. Its aura was like that of a god or demon. Merely standing there, it seemed to stop time. Its towering, godlike phantom made it impossible for anyone to summon the will to resist.
His spiritual sense reached out, and he realized that the giant elephant was breathing. Each inhalation and exhalation followed an incredible rhythm—three long breaths and two short ones—seemingly resonating with the world's fluctuations.
As the giant elephant breathed, chaotic energy from across countless light-years surged toward it, centered on its body, and poured