"No, the rate of shrinkage isn't linear. The larger it was in the early stages, the faster it should have decayed."
"Even allowing for that, its original scale was far greater than it is now. A diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers is just what's left today."
"..."
"What exactly is a Celestial Venerable?"
That comment spoke for everyone watching.
Chen Siyao stood inside the barrier, looking at the three words on the Array Disc Stone. Her breathing was slow and quiet.
"Brother," she spoke again. "Will these remnants of the battle... stay here forever?"
"No," Chen Hao said.
He paused.
"If we take this Array Disc Stone away, they'll disappear faster."
Chen Siyao froze for a moment. "The Array Disc Stone is the core keeping the blood fiend sword intent from dissipating?"
"The array eye," Chen Hao answered simply.
The eye of the Immortal-Slaying Array. Although the array had long since shattered, its eye remained.
As long as the array eye survived, the residual dao intent upon it would keep radiating sword intent outward. Even after ten thousand years, it would not dissipate completely.
Chen Siyao's gaze settled on the stone slab.
The array eye. The eye of the Immortal-Slaying Array.
Even if the formation patterns it held were only fragments, they were still the work of a Celestial Venerable.
If we could take it back...
Before she could say anything, Chen Hao had already moved.
He raised his right hand and reached toward the floating Array Disc Stone.
A light shone in his palm.
It was not spiritual power. Nor was it magic power.
It was the Dao.
Colorless and formless, yet both Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing could feel the surrounding space grow... quiet in that instant.
The blood fiend sword intent that had lingered for