In midair, the pitch-black Expanding Truth-Seeking Ball expanded silently. Wherever it passed, space itself seemed to twist and be devoured.
When the White Snake Sage saw this, her enormous golden vertical pupils filled with terror.
Even though she had lived for a thousand years, she still did not know what this thing was, or why it brought her such endless fear, as if her life would end in the very next second.
At that moment, even her heart, unchanged for a thousand years, seemed to spasm.
Without the slightest hesitation, she began frantically mobilizing the barrier power of Ryūchi Cave, trying to transfer herself away.
However, the entire space of Ryūchi Cave had already been sealed by the All Things of the Universe Array laid down together by the four Wood Clones Qian had split off. Everything she did was nothing but futile.
She knew she could not leave through Space Transfer.
So the White Snake Sage used Sage Art Levitation to distance herself from the Expanding Truth-Seeking Ball while continuously deploying all sorts of methods to attack the enormous sphere.
However, no matter what method she used, even Sage Art Chakra, which had a certain restraining effect on Truth-Seeking Balls, could not affect the Expanding Truth-Seeking Ball before her in the slightest.
It was like a black hole, silently devouring everything around it, including anything that struck at it.
A few seconds later, the Expanding Truth-Seeking Ball expanded to a diameter of a hundred meters.
At that moment, it paused slightly.
Then it suddenly began swelling again, and at a speed far beyond before.
At first, when she saw it stop expanding, a trace of joy at having survived a disaster appeared on the White Snake Sage's face.
But when she saw it accelerate and expand again, that joy