The central array chamber was suspended at the exact heart of the Pagoda, housed within a sphere of polished crystal ten paces across. Outside the see-through crystal walls, thousands of spatial channels pulsed with violet, crimson, and azure light, channeling pure elemental qi from the floating mountain’s leylines into the hundred stacked biomes.
Lin Xiao hovered in the center of the sphere in his natural slime form, his jelly-like mass resting atop a circular bronze console carved with ancient sky-high charts. Beside the console stood Gu Qingfeng and Su Ling’er. The old Sword Saint was squinting curiously at the swirling lights. Meanwhile, Su Ling’er had a charcoal pencil poised over an office tablet.
“Dao Spirit,” Lin Xiao spoke, sending a ripple of intention through his core. “Open the stomach archives. Let’s see what we have in storage.”
“Command acknowledged,” the Dao Spirit’s cool, sweet-sounding voice rang through the crystal sphere. “Accessing Host’s Primordial Chaos Void dantian memory index. Extracting complete living blueprints, behavioral instincts, muscle memory, and attack tracking data recorded across Seasons 01 through 06.”
A soft chime echoed, and the inside of the crystal sphere erupted into a breathtaking light-projected star-pattern.
Floating around them were hundreds of glowing azure silhouettes. Lin Xiao recognized every single one of them. There were the massive, razor-tusked Blood-Horned Boars he had met during his first days in the bamboo forest. The swift, emerald-scaled Shadow Vipers that nested in underground limestone grottos. The armored Iron-Hide Mountain Badgers that fought with timed together burrowing…
