"I felt it! I felt the world respond!"
After learning that the Royal Society and the Church had each reacted to "Natalia's Primordial Creation Experiment," Pan Long went to see Natalia again. Her face was flushed red, and she paced excitedly around the study in her apartment like a well-fed hamster climbing its cage for exercise.
When Pan Long appeared, she startled, then cried out in excitement.
Just as she said, sometime yesterday afternoon, she had suddenly sensed a strange rhythm. A jolt ran through her, and then the whole world seemed to turn transparent, revealing countless interwoven threads.
In that instant, she saw knowledge she had long yearned for but never obtained, answers to problems that had baffled her, and innumerable secrets of history... If she had not been prepared, she might have lost herself in that ocean of knowledge then and there, or even... gone mad.
Fortunately, she had known in advance that something unusual might happen. She had prepared herself, drawn her mind inward, and held fast to her will. Only then had she remained clearheaded.
Even so, she had felt utterly exhausted and sleepy. She took leave, went home, and slept from yesterday evening until this morning—sixteen hours straight.
After waking and eating a huge meal, she waited at home for the unnamed Named One from the East to arrive.
The moment she saw Pan Long, she impatiently told him, "I felt the world respond," and asked what she should do next.
Pan Long did not rush. First, he had her describe the "world's response" in detail, then compared her account with what Lie Yukou and Lanling Kuang had told him.
According to those two Immortals, when the Nine Provinces World responded, a person suddenly felt a wondrous power connect with them. Countless words and interwoven