Within the dark Void Expanse, Hippo Ancient City stood quietly, forming a delicate equilibrium with the other fragmented continents.
The Source Sea born from this continent's division seemed to carry some strange gravitational pull.
At this moment, Hippo Ancient City was growing ever more stable. Soul-light seemed to flicker above its towering walls. The bricks that had lain sealed in dust for years seemed to come alive, writhing as abandoned corners slowly repaired themselves and collapsed walls swiftly piled back up. Even the outermost moat, which had not flowed for ages, abruptly gave birth to a stream of transparent water made of souls.
That current slowly seeped into Hippo Ancient City along the walls, flowing through its original waterways. From the outermost Tenth Street all the way to First Street, in the blink of an eye, the entire ancient city became like a Jiangnan water town, a massive stronghold crisscrossed with canals.
The entire city-state was writhing. The garbage and fertilizer piled within it were flung into the Void Expanse like dregs. Even the mortar and bricks that had remained unchanged on the walls for years slowly broke down and drifted up, as though they had been stripped bare and polished.
Countless bricks wriggled, seeming to possess intelligence as they assembled themselves together.
The former Tenth Street vanished. House after house collapsed into heaps of useless bricks, which became pure bronze beneath layer after layer of soul cleansing. Upon those bronze bricks were either reflections of Frog or a bright red goat.
This wondrous change stunned every living being. Unlike the Wasteland and the Ice Plains, this city-state had not opened and closed on a grand scale to form new lifeforms. It retained its unique appearance, yet erased the traces humanity had once imposed upon it.
Countless bricks, like the