Cold!
Bone-piercing cold!
In an instant, countless frigid currents drilled through every pore of Hippo Ancient City. Passing through the barely formed sludge on the city's surface, that energy squeezed into the follicle-like sacs that held energy.
Just a trace of it stripped the surface energy clean. Pores, sludge, follicles—the three regions all began crackling, like a machine jamming. Especially within the horizontal channels resembling follicles, thud, thud, thud—as though chunks of iron and stone were uncontrollably slamming into the bottom.
Li Ziran felt pain throughout his body, as if the entire Ancient City were about to fall apart. Even more terrifyingly, the refined energy burrowed into the Void Heart. That heart could absorb only the tiniest fraction, while far more remained lodged outside the follicles.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Void Heart beat at full capacity, yet it absorbed less than one-thousandth of the energy. The continuously accumulating energy had already forced cracks through the energy channels. At this rate of violent accumulation, the Void Heart would be crushed within minutes.
Though he had been mentally prepared, fear still seized him when this pressure of the Void Expanse descended. Turning his head, he saw the massive Boundary Wall growing smaller and smaller as he plummeted rapidly, like falling into the Abyss.
He had to find a way to survive, or he would be crushed to powder by the Void Expanse.
Li Ziran was in unbearable agony, but William atop the Boundary Wall wore a strange smile. Everything the Ancient City was suffering had been within his expectations. Over the years, he had seen more than a few creatures that did not know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth. Their final fate had always been to become dust in this Void Expanse. Not one had