This will was so faint, yet its delight was impossible to hide. He was more cautious than those tentacles, more vigilant as well. That black hole of a mouth did not approach; instead, he directed the omnipresent rifts of nothingness to inch toward the empty zone.
He stayed on guard like a wary hunter, but the lure of the Void Heart compelled him forward.
The tendrils advanced through the wreckage of Hippo Ancient City like green snakes, exploring inward little by little.
Li Ziran could not help smiling. Such caution reminded him of himself performing surgery. This continental will truly deserved to have survived several epochs. Unfortunately, these tentacles were destined never to reach the Void Heart.
Hiss!
The rifts of nothingness probing deeper suddenly shuddered. They did not dissipate, but were pulled by something, stretching little by little.
The pull was extremely weak, but there were countless forces around them. The farther they penetrated into Hippo Ancient City, the stronger the pull became. In the end, the rifts vanished completely.
It happened so abruptly that it was almost imperceptible, as though they had silently merged into these murky regions.
The Bronze Mirror instantly concealed himself, even withdrawing all the invading rifts of nothingness. Yet nothing changed in the wreckage of Hippo Ancient City, nor did it pursue him like a madman.
Li Ziran carefully sensed the changes in these most fundamental particles of matter. The Starry Sky Chains had not altered them greatly; they had simply given them mass.
Once they possessed mass, they began to revolve, tracing orbits. The instant those orbits formed, the particles of dust acquired domains of their own.
These domains contained nothing else, only one force: gravity, the inherent gravity of matter.
These gravitational forces were slowly forging his new body.
Countless gravitational forces