Over the past seven days, Ash had discussed the situation on the Void Realm Seventh Layer with Sonia and the others more than once.
Precisely because he knew he needed prophecy, while Ash was in Fishing Heaven, he had deliberately fished the prophecy-school World Secret Domain "Tower to the Heavens" out of Omniscient Heaven—though it was also possible she had sent it over of her own accord. To further strengthen the Tower to the Heavens' authority, Vishy had specially constructed the one-use prophecy miracle "Hand-Eye Connection to the Heavens," condensing a hand-eye linked to the Tower to the Heavens. It flew to the summit of heaven and personally touched the supreme boundary, probing as much information as possible about the interior of the Void Realm Seventh Layer.
Their stockpile of Spell Spirits had been depleted by a third because of this, and the Spell Spirits accumulated by the Wishing Pool over an entire year had been completely exhausted. This was the lack of foundation caused by advancing too quickly—at the Five-Wings level, Spell Spirit miracles were enough to handle the vast majority of situations; at the Six-Wings level, Spell Spirits basically had to rely on Eternal Miracles to be of any use; and if one wanted to touch the supreme Seven-Wings level, Spell Spirits could only be used as one-time consumables, pursuing the brilliant instant when their authority burned out.
Beings like the Starry Sky and the other Divine Lords had accumulated Spell Spirits like mountains and seas over thousands of years and could squander them as if they cost nothing, while Ash and the others were left destitute after casting just one large-scale prophecy Spell Formula. But that did not matter much. As the saying went, if my neighbor has grain and I have a gun, then my neighbor