Eighth Layer of the Eternal Tower.
After bidding farewell to the people of the War Alliance, Jiang Shu immediately returned to the Eternal Tower aboard the War Alliance's starship.
The absolute silence created by time flowing 256 times faster enveloped Jiang Shu once more.
In the void, streams of Great Dao Laws seemed to float around him, connected to billions upon billions of stars.
Jiang Shu sat cross-legged upon the transparent crystal platform suspended in the chaotic void, its surface engraved with countless intricate trajectories of Space Runes.
Before him floated that charcoal-like black stone. It appeared deathly still, yet the immense gravity it emitted caused even the stable platform to hum deeply.
Only within the Eternal Tower could such supreme power exist.
Were it in an ordinary place, the surrounding space might have collapsed inward.
Jiang Shu held his breath and focused, adjusting himself to his peak condition.
The Grand Elder's words echoed in his mind, along with the vast lingering resonance of the "Dao" and the "path" conveyed by the Saint.
"Venerable Realm... Primal Chaos Realm..."
Jiang Shu murmured.
All the insights within him were driven to their utmost limit in an instant.
Every Great Dao he had once comprehended began to circulate madly at this moment.
Like a falling Milky Way.
The bottlenecks he had yet to fully comprehend naturally broke open as well.
The dense Heart of Space Fragment erupted with unprecedented, dazzling silver radiance, greedily reaching toward the Black Stone!
Boom!
A vast will that seemed capable of creation of heaven and earth crashed into Jiang Shu's sea of consciousness together with an unimaginably immense torrent of Space Origin from within the Black Stone.
It was like two enormous spaces being forcibly squeezed together and fused.
"Ugh!"
Jiang Shu grunted. Every Aperture in his body