In this unknown space, Yang Yong's greatest concern was no longer the rifts that could slice him to pieces at any moment, but energy.
His energy was being depleted, yet he had no idea where to replenish it.
It was nothing like his time in Mechanical City, when the massive Curio array beneath the ground supplied supernatural power endlessly, letting him squander as much as he pleased.
Things were different now. He had to carefully budget every bit of energy he spent.
When that giant expelled him from Mechanical City, his Deputy City Lord privileges had already been erased.
He had tried to access Mechanical City's energy circuits, but...
There was only dead silence.
That flick from the giant had not only knocked him out of the city, but also wiped away every mark he had left in Mechanical City.
The giant could actually influence Mechanical City's decisions through that broken axe fragment.
It took Yang Yong a long time to figure that out.
The reason the giant had expelled him outright was that the power of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe within him had originally been borrowed from the giant axe beneath Mechanical City.
With one flick from the giant, that borrowed power had been returned in full, principal and interest, and Yang Yong himself had been knocked out of the game along with it.
This also revealed one thing: there was a connection between the source of power in Mechanical City's deepest reaches and that giant, one he currently could not comprehend at all.
But none of that mattered for the moment.
His most pressing task was to survive in this deathly silent space.
He no longer burned through energy as recklessly as he had in Mechanical City.
If he could avoid using his soul power, he did. If