134 Breaching the Foundations of the Earth 5 (1/2)

The young girl released a smile, the pair of scarlet irises displaying a proud look.

An Fei rubbed her chin while displaying a triumphant smile towards the infinite darkness that surrounded her existence, a lazy look on her stunning countenance.

An indeterminate length of time in mindless experimenting had permitted the young girl to realize that she could manipulate information to create, destroy, and manipulate.

Create artefacts, entities, and life. Destroy creation, and manipulate nothing that constituted the infinite void.

The experiments had revealed to her that her attempts in creation were futile as they instantly crumbled into fragments of nihility, and her ability to manipulate the void served absolutely no purpose for she couldn't grasp a reference coordinate to enact the action.

The odd dream presented a series of divine, godlike abilities, but An Fei was unable to enact upon them, not even for a single instance.

Her creations equated to nothing, her ability to destroy creation equated to nothing, and her ability to manipulate nothing, equated to absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Thus, when presented with the notion of escaping from the dream, why bother to escape?

There was little point in attempting to portray herself as an omnipotent creature in a nonideal environment, so why bother wasting the effort?

The young girl pursed her lips as she puffed her cheeks, displaying a fiendish, taunting glare towards the darkness that encompassed her from all directions.

An Fei's eyelashes blinked in an exasperated manner, quickly drifting into a sentimental daydream to await the dream's conclusion.

The young girl had the time to dream within a dream, but the Sanctum did not…

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The young girl had made her choice, and the bead, ring, and golden sea were to obey.

The bead, after an extensive period of abrupt and unusual silence, reengaged its abrasive behavior, pulses of light expanding from its surface to permeate the ring of tempered divine essence and the sea of golden light.

The ring responded by resonating at an equal frequency with the bead, creating a dense network of light and divine essence.

The young girl's heart, blood vessels, and meridians finally received their long-awaited answer.

Bang!

The sea of golden light unwrapped itself from the surface of the tempered ring, unfurling and expanding within the young girl's heart at an incomprehensive speed.

The heart soon found itself submerged within a dense ocean of golden light, surrounded on all sides by cold indifference and disdain.

The young girl's heart palpitated in fear, its rhythm beginning to distort askew from its already warped state. Unfortunately, not a single entity gave much face to its cries for help, observing the sea, ring, and bead with a gaze of interest.

The bead of infinitesimal mass released a final shockwave in response, the wave of golden light suffusing the ring of tempered divine essence until a brilliant radiance swarmed forth.

The ring increased its rotational speed once more, the reforged inscriptions spanning its surface erupting with an indomitable aura.

The golden light appeared to be compressed back underneath the ring's surface, forced to retreat the instant it attempted to escape.

A tremendous pressure began to build up within the channels of the tempered ring of divine essence, until –

Boom!

The freed golden light exploded from the ring's surface in abject rage, expanding outward in all directions possible to escape its ruthless captor.

The golden sea quickly parted way for the streams of light to blaze through, not daring to interfere with its enraged stampede in the slightest.

Regardless of whether it was the heart, a blood vessel, or a stray meridian, they all trembled upon glancing towards the unstoppable wave of divine essence.

The meridians in particular attempted to shift themselves away from the stampede inviting death, only to realize…

The stampede of golden light and death's inviting smile seemed to be headed towards them…

The streams of golden light did not permit a single sound to escape as they ruthlessly invaded into the eight extraordinary meridians of the young girl, permeating the delicate channels and scouring the sides of its walls to remove the instilled impurities.

The cruel and vicious conqueror charged through the meridians with breakneck speed, its lance piercing through the toughest defenses with a lighthearted smile.

”AH!!!”

Some of the nearby meridians tore from the onslaught's aftershocks, thin rivulets of blood gushing from the wounds to dye its channels.

The Governing Vessel, Conception Vessel, Penetrating Vessel, Girdle Vessel, Yang-Linking Vessel, Yin-Linking Vessel, the Heel Vessels of Yin and Yang…