19 Awaken
The elders glanced at each other for a moment and quickly decided to follow the leader.
"Elder Zhang, stay on the ship and protect it," Li Yuemei's father said, intending for Elder Zhang to stay for the sake of his daughter.
Elder Xu then suggested, "I think it's better if we bring everyone onto the ship. After all, the safest place is with us, and in case something terrible happens, we can use the ship's final protection. It could save the lives of the disciples and ours," he added after considering the situation.
"That makes sense. Alright, let's go with your plan," Li Yuemei's father agreed. After a few moments, the ship began to fly rapidly towards the abyss.
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At this moment, the leader of the sacred land was on the edge of the central area. This place was the habitat of terrifying monsters, and even in the holy realm, the cold climate was terrifying. He didn't dare venture deeply into this area.
However, today, the cold wasn't as intense. Still, the central area remained absolutely frightening, and he didn't dare take a step inside.
On his way, he encountered many auras of emperor-level and saint-level beasts, but they all seemed to be in agreement to simply mind their own business. All were hidden deep in their ice caves.
The leader soon realized that the temperature, the clouds in the sky, and both the external and internal areas of the central abyss were rapidly decreasing.
He stood on the edge, waiting until, after a few hours, a gigantic golden ship approached where he was. On top of it were numerous people looking down into the abyss.
Some were curious, while others were fearful and nervous about what they would find here.
The elders arrived in front of the leader, and Elder Xu explained why they brought the ship, asking for guidance on what to do next.
"What do you think? The temperature is increasing, and I feel that in a few dozen minutes, the central area will be accessible with my strength and the ship's protection."
The sect leader sought Elder Xu's opinion.
"I think we should see what's happening in there. We need to figure out whatever being is in that place and see if it will be hostile to us," Elder Xu suggested.
"Alright, then it's decided."
After a few minutes, the ship entered the central area of the abyss, with everyone on board feeling tense about entering the only indescribably level area on the planet.
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In the center of the abyss, three days after a small part of the ice cocoon broke, almost the entire cocoon was completely cracked.
It seemed like it would break apart entirely at any moment.
Then, finally, after every part of the cocoon was cracked.
'Crack'
The entire ice cocoon broke slowly, falling to the ground in countless three-colored ice pieces.
The body that was in the cocoon floated in the air without any apparent energy. A slight breath then emanated from the body, and freezing breath escaped from its mouth in the form of vapor.
The eyes of the body trembled slightly, and after a few moments, those eyes, closed for millions of years, finally opened again.
Two eyes with completely white pupils appeared before the world.
But then everything stopped.
Absolutely everything.
From ordinary mortals to extremely powerful individuals, even the seawater ceased to move.
The planet stopped spinning, and in the vast galaxy, nothing moved.
Everything in that universe had stopped for just less than a thousandth of a second.
Time itself had stopped, as if it had ceased to exist for a moment.
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In the vast universe, at an incalculable distance from the planet where the body was located.
There was a massive floating island wandering in space, larger than countless planets.
In a completely different structure, a simple old man with a wooden sword opened his eyes after sensing the changes in the universe.
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On a small asteroid slowly flying through space, there was a small cabin where a person covered in scars suddenly stood up from his small chair, staring at the universe in front of him and pondering deeply.
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In a luxurious castle in the far reaches of space, an extremely handsome man lay with dozens of women in his bed when he suddenly jumped up.
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Similar situations happen everywhere in the universe. All those extremely powerful beings, above practically all existences, felt the small change.
And they all thought the same.
'A primordial potential has been born.'
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In the frozen abyss.
Just as everything stopped, everything returned to normal as if nothing had happened.
No one on the planet could perceive that something had occurred.
Then, finally, the consciousness in the body awakened.
Its eyes, once white, returned to a beautiful light blue color.
Then, the body that was floating descended from the air and gently landed on the ground.
As soon as its feet touched the ground, a thick layer of ice formed everywhere.
So a voice suddenly echoed in the sky a few hundred meters away from him.
"A human??!!!"
