Dadangar world had not developed a "hole."
Its spatial structure had not collapsed. Only the contents inside the "container" had been changed.
That was all.
Yelia slowly lowered her gaze while observing the calm surrounding space. A faint thoughtful expression appeared on her beautiful face.
"Thankfully... we succeeded," she murmured softly.
If she had been even slightly slower during the replacent process, the result could have beco disastrous. After all, the World Will of a developed Spirit cultivation world was not sothing ordinary beings could offend casually.
A developed world was almost like a living giant creature. An unimaginably vast existence.
However, most of the ti, such a World Will remained in a sleeping state. It had no interest in the countless small lives living inside it. Nor would it care about minor conflicts between cultivators.
Only when sothing truly catastrophic threatened the balance of the world itself would it awaken fully.
And once a World Will awakened in anger—
The consequences were terrifying beyond imagination.
Fortunately, Yelia had handled everything carefully.
The Dadangar World had not "lost" any portion of itself. Thus, even if the World Will had noticed sothing unusual briefly, it would not react violently. The sleeping giant would simply continue slumbering.
Yelia slowly floated across the empty region while looking around calmly. After confirming that the spatial replacent process had stabilized completely, she finally turned toward Aksai.
Only then did she realize that he had not moved from the Void Water Pond this whole ti.
A faint frown appeared on her face.
"My lord?"
She floated toward the raised platform slowly. As she climbed higher, the azure glow reflecting from the pond beca brighter and brighter.
Soon, she finally reached the top of the platform.
And then—
Yelia froze.
Her eyes widened slightly. The Void Water Pond was glowing intensely now.
Countless tiny azure "stars" floated deep beneath the dark surface. The clusters of light continuously flickered while devouring the waves of Spirit Sense, Qi Sense, and Aether Sense Aksai kept feeding into the pond.
The scene looked beautiful. But the mont Yelia saw it clearly, her expression changed completely.
Shock.
Then horror.
"My liege!"
Her voice suddenly beca much louder than before.
Aksai imdiately stopped what he was doing and looked toward her in surprise.
"What happened?"
Yelia floated closer to the pond while staring at the countless glowing clusters beneath the dark water. For the first ti since her awakening, genuine fear could be seen on her face.
"My liege... you should not continue this," she said quickly.
Aksai frowned slightly.
"Why?"
Yelia slowly pointed toward the glowing clusters inside the pond.
"I understand now," she said softly.
Her voice sounded tense.
"When I first sensed this place, I told you I felt a living thing from this raised platform."
She paused briefly before continuing.
"I was only half right."
Her eyes remained fixed on the glowing "stars" beneath the dark surface.
"It is not one living being."
"It is many."
Aksai narrowed his eyes but didn’t say anything, allowing Yelia to finish what she was saying. Yelia inhaled lightly before speaking again.
"They are Void Gu."
Aksai felt puzzled.
"Void Gu?"
Yelia nodded slowly.
"Yes."
Her expression remained extrely cautious.
"These things... cannot truly be described as normal living creatures."
"They are living beings... but also not living beings."
Aksai looked back toward the pond. The countless tiny azure lights continued flickering beneath the dark water calmly.
"They are fragnts of spatial laws that sohow gained consciousness," Yelia explained quietly.
"They do not necessarily possess ranks like ordinary gu insects."
"They also do not fully follow the logic of normal lifeforms."
"They are mysterious. Unpredictable. Dangerous."
Yelia’s gaze slowly shifted toward Aksai.
"And most importantly..."
Her voice beca lower.
"Nobody truly understands them."
Aksai remained silent for a few monts. He looked carefully at the glowing clusters again.
Now that Yelia had explained things, those tiny "stars" really did seem alive in a strange way.
Not through flesh. Not through Spirit Essence. But through sothing else entirely.
"They don’t seem hostile," Aksai finally comnted as he observed the behaviour of the tiny azure gu cluster.
"That is exactly what makes them dangerous," Yelia replied imdiately.
She slowly shook her head.
"Void Gu do not think like ordinary creatures."
"They may ignore you one mont and erase half your body the next."
"They may help you for no reason... or destroy you for no reason. Or simply do nothing for thousands of years"
"There is no logic to them."
Aksai clicked his tongue softly.
"That sounds annoying."
Yelia almost looked speechless hearing that response.
"My liege... these things are connected to spatial laws themselves."
"Even high-level cultivators avoid interacting with them carelessly."
She looked toward the glowing pond again before speaking slowly.
"The fact that they are responding to your senses already feels abnormal enough."
A faint thoughtful expression appeared on Aksai’s face.
"So they’re eating my senses?"
Yelia nodded imdiately.
"Yes."
"Your Spirit Sense, Qi Sense, and Aether Sense are probably being treated as food... or perhaps stimulation."
Aksai quietly stared at the glowing Void Water Pond for a long ti after hearing Yelia’s warning.
The countless tiny azure "stars" beneath the dark surface continued flickering calmly. They looked peaceful. But now he knew those tiny lights were actually millions of Void Gu hidden inside the pond.
The thought alone sounded absurd.
Millions of Void Gu. For a perspective, even controlling thousands of ordinary gu was a challenge for the Gu Poison King. The fact that he could do it despite those challenges had what earned him his Dao Na.
"My liege," Yelia spoke again in a cautious voice, "you truly should stop now. Void Gu are not sothing your current cultivation should interact with carelessly."
Aksai remained silent for a few monts. Then he suddenly smiled faintly.
"...Maybe."
Yelia frowned slightly.
"But my instincts are telling sothing else."
Aksai slowly looked down at his own hand. Faint Spirit Essence flowed around his fingers quietly.
"I don’t know why," he continued softly, "but I feel so kind of strange affinity with them."
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