At first, it was just wisps of an aura—faint, pale-white, and so subtle as to be almost imperceptible. Warm, yet tinged with a heavy bitterness, it rose from under the eaves of countless homes, from the soil of the fields, from the vibrant clamor of city streets, and from the lonely watchtowers of border garrisons... spiraling gently upward.
Presently, these subtle wisps of aura, like homing birds answering an unseen summons, began to converge upon the Array Discs in their respective regions.
The aura of a town gathered at its local Array Disc, the aura of a county condensed at its own, and the auras of prefectures and provinces surged upward, layer by layer. Like trickling streams flowing into great rivers, and the rivers rushing to the vast sea!
Above the Imperial City, the core of an inverted meteorite, concealed by layers of Arrays, had now become the final vortex, drawing in the All Living Beings' Qi from the entire Great Cang Territory!
