The thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls devoured the chaotic energy, converting it pearl by pearl into Innate Spiritual Energy before delivering it to the five pearls that had already developed worlds within them.
With the thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls in place, Yellow Dragon turned his attention to Ancestor Dragon and the restored Ancestor Dragon Pearl.
As Ancestor Dragon lifted its restrictions, everything inside the pearl came into view once more.
Yellow Dragon's expression sharpened. His gaze settled on the world within.
Then he saw something that made his pupils contract.
The world inside the Ancestor Dragon Pearl had once seemed to him incomplete in its laws and crude in its structure, barely able to function only because Ancestor Dragon forcibly poured spiritual energy into it from outside. Now it was evolving on its own.
This was no passive change forced along by Ancestor Dragon's will. It was an active, unending evolution rising spontaneously from the depths of the world's core.
Law after law perfected itself. They were not laws Ancestor Dragon had comprehended and imprinted there. It was as though the world itself were awakening after its deathly stillness and beginning to build its own bones and lifeblood.
The five-element laws wove themselves into a complete cycle.
The world's structure of space and time adjusted itself. Space expanded, time accelerated, and the entire world spread outward at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The sight stunned not only Yellow Dragon, an outsider, but Ancestor Dragon himself.
His enormous dragon eyes widened even more than they had when he saw Yellow Dragon assemble all thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls. His mouth fell slightly open, and a low, incredulous dragon's cry rumbled in his throat.
He had lived for countless ages and spent long years developing a world inside the Ancestor Dragon Pearl, yet he had