Xuanhuang Small World.
Inside the hall of the Central Base.
The shimmering spell-light swirled beneath the ceiling. As the high-backed chair slammed into the floor, it shuddered violently, then slowly began flowing again.
Jiang Yu opened her eyes.
A flood of memories that belonged to her yet felt slightly unfamiliar surged into her mind. She gave an involuntary muffled groan and closed the eyes she had just opened.
At the same time, another field of vision unfolded from above.
The little Jade Person in Dylan's hand was watching her own body from another angle—lying on the floor, raising a hand to massage her temples. It seemed contradictory, uncanny, yet strangely reasonable.
"—Jiang Yu?"
The little Jade Person's slightly irritable cursing snapped Dylan out of his daze. His grip loosened a little as he asked tentatively. His voice immediately made the other wizards in the hall look up in unison.
Then they, too, saw the little Jade Person.
"Ah, sorry. My head's a bit of a mess right now. Would you please put me down first?"
The little Jade Person's agitation from passing through the dimensional gate and parting with Black Cat quickly subsided once most of her memories returned to her true self. She cleared her throat and spoke stiffly.
Mr. Vampire Werewolf silently floated down, folded away the broad bat wings behind him, and glanced around. With a beckoning gesture, he summoned another high-backed chair from a distance and set the little Jade Person on it.
"—So there's a higher-dimensional space inside the Void Cavity?"
Xiao Xiao, the most widely knowledgeable of them, was the first to react. He adjusted his glasses thoughtfully. "Time flows differently on the two sides—is that because of the structure evolving during world ascension?"
Each sentence skipped over a long chain of conjecture, making