Above The Sky

Chapter 2166 - 62: Shine Like a Lighthouse, Illuminating Every Path Into the Unknown Night_6

However, before he could speak, the Great Khan suddenly sensed a surge of aether fluctuations.

A tide that resonated throughout the entire world.

"Perpetual Motion Machine?!"

Instantly discerning the source of this aether fluctuation, Gonta looked incredulously toward the peak of the distant firmament where the ’Eyes of Radiance’ appeared once more: "Who has summoned it?! Has the Silverpeak Seer returned? But how dared he?"

"The external end has yet to be resolved, hasn’t it?!"

Since Ian Silverpeak’s failed attempt to ascend to Star God, the Tara Confederation had been searching to uncover the truth about ’The End’. Some already knew parts of the intelligence regarding The End, while others were completely uninformed. Nonetheless, under the subtle hints from the Silverpeak Domain, everyone understood that beyond the Infernal Heaven and the Cradle, a ferocious beast had been lying in wait, biding its time to pierce through the barrier and devour them all.

This was precisely why Ian Silverpeak had not achieved becoming a Star God, and it was the real reason the perpetual motion machine couldn’t be truly activated—if a perpetual motion machine or a Sixth Energy Level entity appeared within the Cradle, its dispersing aether waves would penetrate the Cradle’s gaps, ushering in The End!

Thus, whether it was Gonta or other Fifth Energy Levels, they could calmly proceed with their plans—The End was too distant; rather than pondering over it, it was preferable to consider how prepared they could be before completing the Cradle on Dragon Island.

Everyone had already decided that once the Cradle’s gap was patched, they would immediately initiate their plans to seize the ’opportunity to achieve Sixth Energy Level’ and ’qualification to control the perpetual motion machine’.

But why, would anyone activate the perpetual motion machine now?!

In an instant, disregarding Gaer’s ongoing challenge behind him, Gonta Ximor turned around, and behind him, an endless gust of wind swirled, transforming into a continuously rotating vortex, a twisted black focal point in space.

The expanding atmospheric pressure and the terrifying impact force rotated, condensed, focused, and impacted. In the blink of an eye, artificial suns ignited in midair and swiftly extinguished, turning into fleeting black dots that erupted into endless light upon their dissipation.

Centered around these black dots and brilliant radiance, a flowing gravitational stream sketched the semblance of a feral beast, or perhaps the mouth of such a beast, as if poised to consume everything, swallowing all into its belly.

This was Azure Khan Gonta Ximor’s Aether True Body—[Wolf of Heavenly Punishment]!

This was the essence of the ’Wolf of the Azure Sky’, a gravitational creature that lived within a black hole’s accretion disk, devouring the negative entropy therein and performing mass-energy conversion through the power of the black hole to acquire boundless power.

Interestingly, despite its name, a black hole isn’t dark; it glows with brilliant light, and the life form most similar to the Wolf of the Azure Sky is none other than the Sunbird.

Their relationship is akin to distant relatives who restrain each other; born from the black hole’s accretion disk and jets, the Darklight Wolves possess attributes of ’wind and earth’, though the wind is the black hole jet capable of sweeping across light-years, and the earth includes copious metal substances inherent in the jets, serving as the core of mass-energy conversion.

The Wolf of the Azure Sky and the Sunbird are the best representations of many similar yet different races in this universe.

When the Wolf of Heavenly Punishment emerged, centering on Gonta Ximor, the entire Moving Royal Court and even a considerable part of the Azure Sky Royal Court began converging aether toward the Great Khan’s position, and this occurred even without his deliberate control, as it was a natural phenomenon.

Meanwhile, all tourists and locals within the Moving Royal Court began heading to the royal court’s internal ’shelters’ at utmost speed. Their actions flowed seamlessly, for those on Terra Continent possessing genes that made them not seek refuge upon spotting conspicuous Mystical Phenomena had perished many years ago.

As per usual custom, when the Great Khan takes action, the aether within a few thousand kilometers around would rapidly swirl, stirring up gales, earthquakes, gravitational imbalances, and space-time distortions, causing the sun in the sky to dim and the ground to shine with a black luminous wheel—a black core with a flashing outer wheel.

Theoretically, indeed it was so.

But none of this occurred.

"What?!"

At this moment, Gonta Ximor was startled to discover that the aether was surging vehemently, but the object of its flow was not him, but the Above the Sky, a star glimmering far off beyond the sky...

A silver [Distant Star]!

Aether was celebrating jubilantly, and all Sublimators of the Third Energy Level and above, capable of interacting with and creating Primal Aether, felt the entire Great Ether Ocean of Tyra rejoicing; it was as though it had come alive, spontaneously moving, leaving their originally guarded regions, following a silent command toward the top of the firmament, the direction of the perpetual motion machine, and that abruptly appearing silver star.

Aether was vanishing.

Aether True Body was disintegrating.

The mystical phenomena and powers constructed by aether were subtly fading.

All Fourth Energy Levels were astonished at this moment, sensing that the Aether True Body gathered within them, which imposed tremendous pressure yet granted them immense power, was gradually retreating, dissipating, akin to an overly inflated balloon with a hidden puncture, and their strength, like the balloon’s air, was persistently leaking out, only to be seized by that silver star.