The guiding stream of light, like a tame spirit serpent, led Neji through the intricate network of energy rainbow bridges.
The sights around him grew ever more beyond reason. He saw entire continents transformed into layered circular gardens, where the plants exhaled visible motes of energy; he saw bottomless sinkholes filled with liquid starlight, seemingly some kind of high-density energy harvesting field; he even caught glimpses of bizarre starry behemoths as large as mountain ranges, bound to designated orbits by massive energy chains. Like living generators or biological weapons, they docilely provided this starfield with extra energy and protection.
Within the Mother Star, every inch displayed the Ōtsutsuki Clan's greedy extraction of energy and absolute control over the material world.
At last, the stream of light veered away from the main rainbow bridge network and headed toward a relatively secluded region of space.
What floated here were not enormous artificial celestial bodies, but a solitary palace complex of an exceedingly austere and majestic style.
The palace was cast in dark silver and pale white, its sharp, angular structures resembling several immense, icy blades thrusting into the void and crossing one another.
Its surface was covered in intricate yet orderly geometric reliefs. They were not decorations, but circuits through which energy faintly flowed.
At the heart of the palace complex stood a sharp main tower tens of thousands of feet tall. Above its peak floated a slowly rotating dark-purple energy core, radiating fluctuations that faintly resonated with the aura of the "Isshiki" Neji had assumed.
This was Amaterasu Palace—one of the residences inherited by the Main House branch under Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and nominally his "home."
The stream of light stopped before a transparent energy barrier around the palace. The barrier rippled like water, opening an entrance.
Neji flew inside and immediately