Within a vast, boundless stretch of void and chaos... tens of millions of miles of Chaos Space were enclosed by endless masses of rock, their surfaces covered in countless mysterious, profoundly intricate runes...
Amid those countless rocks... lay an enormous white tiger hundreds of thousands of miles long, its body covered in white fur... Beside this gigantic divine beast White Tiger was another tiger several thousand miles long... Compared with the enormous divine beast White Tiger, it looked like a little kitten... It was utterly adorable, bounding about as it played...
The little white tiger swept a paw through the Chaos Space, snatching over a mass of rock. It kneaded the rocks into a ball, then aimed at the other masses of rock floating in the Chaos Space and hurled it... smashing them to pieces... The little white tiger was positively delighted, clearly enjoying itself immensely...
The enormous divine beast White Tiger showed little interest. It rested with its eyes closed, strands of astonishing spiritual light constantly seeping into its body...
Throughout the enormous space enclosed by rock... only the little white tiger was playing...
Yet neither the little white tiger nor the divine beast White Tiger noticed...
Within that immense rocky wall... a thread of blue-green spiritual light, finer than a strand of hair, was flowing along the stone... It seemed to be nothing more than a slender filament...
It drifted gently toward the little white tiger...
But its speed was astonishingly slow... Neither the divine beast White Tiger nor the little white tiger noticed it...
Who knew how much time passed...
The little white tiger seemed to tire of playing and nestled into the divine beast White Tiger's embrace to rest. Spiritual light flashed around the divine beast White Tiger, shielding the little one...
And in that instant...