Very soon, the Thought Threads gathered again, condensing within the Divine Spirit Halo, while the surroundings filled with countless scenes radiating from the crystals.
The pitch-black torrent devoured the starry sky and brought darkness, yet the halo bloomed with radiance, refracting across scene after scene and revealing splendor.
"Projections of starry-sky lifeforms? Relying on the projected power of countless beings, countless levels, countless thoughts to temporarily break through the Black Abyss—so what?" There was not even contempt in the Black Emperor's words. He simply had no intention of wasting any more time on Qiu Yan. "But this power is scattered and disorderly. To put it plainly, it is nothing but a rabble. It can be shattered in one stroke!"
As his words fell, blackness gathered, pressing down upon layer after layer of light and shadow.
But before that blackness could touch the light and shadows, the Divine Spirit Halo suddenly spun, drawing all those crystals and countless projections into itself!
"Hm? Another madman!"
Even the Black Emperor was startled at the sight. Naturally, he knew what stood behind each of those crystals.
At that moment, Qiu Yan's voice drifted lightly from within. "Every crystal is the embodiment of an Emperor Lord's or a Sage's wisdom. They are the true principles of the starry sky that they pursued throughout their lives, treasures refined and distilled from all beings and all things!"
In truth, like the crystal the Demon Realm Lord had transmitted earlier, these crystals gathered the projections of countless beings implicated behind Emperor Lord principles and Sage doctrines. The sheer volume of information had already surpassed the limits of imagination!
When the Heart Demon Body had absorbed the Demon Realm Lord's crystal, the Black Emperor had assumed that the Heart Demon had fallen into despair and was destroying itself. Now