The pitch-black sphere floated in the sea, it seemed like a painting, as there was no light or shadow to give it a three-dimensional sense, purely black, in Ian’s eyes, it was an abrupt darkness in a colorful world, no matter the angle, it was an unchanging sphere.
To this, Ian could only find it incredible.
"Why is the Star Prison Tianyu here?"
This is the Star Prison Tianyu—a dark realm that absorbs all electromagnetic waves, all light, all gravity, all Origin Quality and Spirit Energy reactions, a prison where everything is frozen in stasis.
It appeared in the cranial cavity of the Terra Dragon, causing a myriad of speculations to arise in one’s heart.
Is this the means used by the Terra Dragon to protect its inheritance? Did the Terra Dragon master the way to create the Star Prison Tianyu back then?
And, most importantly...
How can one open this miniature Star Prison Tianyu?
Ian couldn’t find any method for now, rather, the reason he came to seek the Terra Dragon’s inheritance was to see if there was a way within to open or repair the Star Prison Tianyu.
As it turned out, the inheritance was inside the Tianyu.
With a thought, Ian condensed the surrounding seawater into ice, attempting to touch the Star Prison Tianyu.
No response whatsoever, Ian couldn’t feel reactive force, nor did he feel the ice cone advancing, the black sphere, apart from absorbing all external forces and severing internal and external connections, showed no reaction to the outside world.
In Ian’s perception, it was like pushing into the void, always unable to feel any true contact with something, not even the sensation of air turning to wind brushing past his fingers, a complete sense of nihility appeared on the ice cone.
"Material contact has no effect? Then try Origin Quality."
Ian cautiously used Origin Quality to touch the Star Prison Tianyu—unfortunately, it also had no response. Origin Quality just slipped away like a drop of water on oil, unable to penetrate into the Tianyu, interfering with its internals.
Spirit Energy proved equally ineffective, Ian even entered the Domain of Void on the spot, yet in the Domain of Void, the Star Prison Tianyu remained a pitch-black spherical form, no different from the material world.
This is a comprehensively consistent, flawless ’prison’, and also a perfect safe.
"No wonder, with so many paths, I never thought of leaving the Star Prison Tianyu from elsewhere, only aiming for the ’Calamity of Light’ entry, this thing really has no flaw."
After some testing, Ian couldn’t help but marvel... he thought he wasn’t so stubborn to have to pass through that dangerous exit.
If exiting from the other side of the Star Prison Tianyu, opposite the entrance of the Calamity of Light, the End blocking the gate, then by the size of the Star Prison Tianyu, this other exit would be ten light-years away.
Ten light-years, even the End shouldn’t be able to perceive this information that quickly, let alone that the other side probably wouldn’t care—Dying Star Path was discovered only because he actively bumped into it.
So, is the Star Prison Tianyu invincible?
The Calamity of Heavenly Fall, it was the result of a Star God Spaceship crashing and shattering the Star Prison Tianyu, then flying across space only to eventually shatter the Moon and crash on Terra.
Though it’s unclear how the Star God Spaceship traveled initially, it indeed had a power level sufficient to smash the Star Prison Tianyu.
"Could it be that a black hole is needed to break the Star Prison Tianyu?"
A small blue dragon circled the pitch-black sphere, Ian was somewhat helpless: "If it were the larger Star Prison Tianyu outside, that could be a possible option... But this one so small, do I have to use a laboratory quantum black hole to open it?"
"No. If the Terra Dragon can make this thing, it must have a way to open it—yet that’s exactly what I want! Its inheritance is locked in an unopenable box!"
Thinking of this, Ian couldn’t help but feel a headache: "What a joke!"
"Brother, are you in trouble?"
The Crystal Dragon Ian was possessing kept circling the pitch-black sphere, neither Spirit Energy, Origin Quality nor even the combination of both into Primal Aether could interfere with it in the slightest. Meanwhile, Elan, watching this scene, asked worriedly, "Can I help in any way?"
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Ian was about to say something, but soon, a flash of inspiration struck his mind, seeming to realize something.
"The Star Prison Tianyu is stable and consistent whether in the material world or the Domain of Void, I’ve never seen such a stable form of ’substance’, or perhaps it wasn’t substance at all... Aether’s influence on substance and the Domain of Void doesn’t fundamentally surpass Spirit Energy and Origin Quality, its true significance is in threading through space-time..."
Muttering to himself, Ian’s eyes slowly widened, he suddenly thought of a possibility, a possibility that might let him uncover part of the Star Prison Tianyu’s truth: "As long as I can reverse space-time, and witness the process from sixteen hundred years ago when the Terra Dragon shaped the ’Star Prison Tianyu’ inside its skull!"
"Yeah, I don’t need to open the Star Prison Tianyu on a ’material and soul’ level—I just need to open it on the ’time axis’ level!"
"And Elan’s Spirit Energy..."
Ian turned his head, looking at the puzzled little dragon.
He smiled: "That’s the Retrospective Vision!"