The abrupt change froze all four of them. No one had tampered with anything. The chains linking the four Continental Cores had all snapped, and nothing remained that could bind the cores together.
Yet the four cores were still tangled together, as though some invisible, untouchable substance existed within the rift.
"What's going on, Jiawen? Your Christie's has dealt with Continental Cores for a lifetime—what trick is hidden inside them?" Hot-tempered Barto shouted outright. He had come from the borderlands.
He could already sense many strange auras appearing nearby. They belonged to mighty beings scanning from the very edge of the Void Expanse.
The last thing he wanted now was to come into contact with those madmen.
Those people had already noticed the anomaly here. More precisely, the Continental Cores had displayed an ability that even mighty beings had never anticipated.
"I've never seen this before, nor have I ever opened a Continental Core!" Jiawen said quickly. He too wanted to break free from this entanglement as soon as possible, but Continental Cores already represented the pinnacle of Christie's research. As for what lay within the cores, there was not the slightest bit of information.
Jiawen's reply undoubtedly made the current situation worse. No one wanted to remain here for long. The more deeply they fused with the Continental Cores, the more they could feel the benefits Origin offered them.
Given enough time to completely absorb the Continental Cores, they could become the strongest mighty beings in the current Void Expanse.
"We need to find a way," Gelong said swiftly. Even he, who had always been steady and composed, was growing anxious. A thread of his soul had already seeped into the fractured layer within the Continental Core.
Sizzle!
A streak of lightning flashed, and the soul vanished at once.