At a distance of less than a thousand kilometers, on the scale of the universe, they were practically face-to-face.
Yet what unfolded within Ming Xin's perception
was not a distinct "object," but a mad, magnificent, despair-inducing vision of apocalypse.
The first thing that filled all his senses was the energy vortex whose scale defied description—the Eye of Guixu itself.
It was not still. It spun and pulsed madly at a violent speed that seemed capable of tearing everything apart.
At its core was a bottomless abyss of pure black, as though it could utterly devour even light and hope.
Along the abyss's edge flowed and erupted viscous ribbons of dark purple and violet-black light, like molten stars yet exuding an aura of extreme cold and dead silence.
Every pulse and eruption of those ribbons released terrifying quantities of energy radiation containing ultimate laws such as "Terminus," "Silence," and "Order Zeroing."
That radiation was precisely what formed the omnipresent, suffocating pressure.
The vortex was unimaginably vast. At a rough estimate, its main body was likely over a million kilometers in diameter!
Like an insatiable cosmic beast, it had opened its "eye."
It crazily devoured all surrounding energy and matter, converting them into an even purer force of "Finality."
Even more chillingly, surrounding that "giant eye" floated and revolved an incomparably complex, precise three-dimensional energy array.
It was the reception and defense system constructed by the Purification Protocol with everything it had.
Tens of thousands of hexagonal dark gold beacon platforms of varying sizes were arranged as neatly as a honeycomb, forming concentric rings around the "eye."
Thick dark gold beams flowing with cold Order energy linked the platforms together, creating an immense energy network.
At the heart of the network, directly opposite the center of the eye's abyss, floated seven colossal