As for Zhao Cheng, upon seeing this terrifying information black hole, he did not make a move at once. Instead, he paused slightly.
This was an opportunity for everyone present. Such an encounter was undoubtedly a tempering of the mind and will; the higher one's realm, the greater the benefits gained.
Only after everyone had reached a certain limit of endurance did Zhao Cheng finally move.
In reality, Zhao Cheng stretched out his arm, then suddenly grabbed.
In an instant, within everyone's perception, Zhao Cheng transformed from a tiny human into a demon god even larger than the universe itself. Sun, moon, and stars revolved around him, while all laws of physics were warped by the sheer magnitude of his form.
That gauze-like veil had already seemed infinitely vast in everyone's perception, yet now, with something to compare it to, it appeared so tiny.
Boom!
In the blink of an eye, the gauze formed of countless dot matrices shifted, becoming a regular tetrahedron. Within the tetrahedron's four inscribed faces was a sphere, and within that sphere lay another tetrahedron.
The next moment, in the virtual lifeform's perception, it directly parasitized Zhao Cheng. More precisely, its information invaded him.
After a long entanglement spanning endless years, Zhao Cheng was finally "refined" by it.
Then, in the swift passage of a thousand years, they completed their preliminary preparations, and the Empire finally descended.
Only at this moment did the virtual lifeform finally sense that something was wrong. It jolted awake and calculated madly, only to finally discover the data that had invaded its interior.
In reality, Zhao Cheng was holding an illusory polyhedron in his hand. There was no demon god larger than the universe, nor any gauze-like veil. It seemed that everything which had just appeared had merely been an illusion.