Floating five yards before the palace-sized crystal orb, Lin Xiao extended a slender, semi-clear azure slime arm toward the surface of the Earth-Core Leyline Heart. He didn’t force his way through. He simply allowed his fluid sense membrane to touch the radiant diamond-jade skin.
A faint, crystal-clear chime echoed directly through his spiritual core.
The moment the contact solidified, Lin Xiao’s Primordial Chaos dantian—a boundless aquatic cosmos holding the distilled essence of sky thunder, fiery earth-fire, and ice-slow meltwater—shook in deep, sympathetic deep ring with the world-size engine. It wasn’t an invasive intrusion, but an easy homecoming. Through his non-Newtonian membrane, Lin Xiao felt the slow, rhythmic pulse of the earth-heat leylines running through the land-wide mantle like rich, slow-simmering broth in a cosmic cooking pot. The deep magma drain tubes circulating miles below, the underground rivers filtering through dark rock underground water beds, and the dense terrestrial marrow hummed along ancient fault lines in perfect ringing counterpoint to his own swirling origin core.
Instantly, the darkness of his mental sea was lit up by a blinding flash of golden-azure light. Dao Spirit’s analytical processors engaged at ten thousand times normal speed, deploying millions of tiny tracking data probes into the crystal’s internal matrix.
