And as the hunched figure of the Sea of Stars Merchant, "Wuwu," vanished into the void...
In the "Klein Bottle" region of the Eleventh Dimension's Ancient Era.
It was an exceptionally peculiar space, its topology like that of a true Klein bottle, with no distinction between inside and outside and its beginning joined to its end. Any living being who tried to leave from the "inside" would find themselves back on the "inside," like an eternal closed loop.
The four palace masters of the "Boundless Celestial Palace" had chosen to set their plans in motion here.
The "Mother of Family Affection" sat at the very center, her gentle, all-embracing aura enveloping the entire region like a mother's embrace.
Countless threads condensed from the power of "family affection" surrounded her, each connected to a family, a bond, or an inseparable tie of blood in the Ancient Era.
"Vast Supremacy" hovered high above. Its body, so enormous that it could not be classified as any fixed form, had now taken the form of a "Cloud Palace" covering the entire sky. From between those boundless clouds, the power of "vastness" continually fell like rain.
"Yōuyuǎn Star Lord" was busy a little farther away, its eyes filled with stars half-closed as its hands constantly wove an exceptionally intricate power structure in the void. It was a template for the Divine Rank of a Sea of Stars Grand Lord, and it was recreating this long-lost system of power for the Ancient Era.
The "Star-Patrolling Sea Lord" surveyed every direction. Its gaze of infinite starlight, cast down from the highest reaches of the sky, was like the most precise scanner, taking in every coordinate and every ripple of power within the entire "Klein Bottle" region.
Suddenly, these four beings from the "Boundless Celestial Palace" seemed to