A faint glimmer passed through Xiao Ning's eyes as they slowly opened, a faint sheen of crimson flickering within his pupils before vanishing without a trace.
Without hesitation, his divine sense withdrew from the sea of consciousness and sank downward—piercing through meridians, spiritual veins, and inner barriers—until it reached the depths of his dantian.
Here, within the vast interior of his cultivation core, his Nascent Soul floated silently in lotus position, surrounded by a dense field of swirling black-golden qi.
Xiao Ning's gaze landed on the tiny figure that resembled him in every way—his true Nascent Soul, formed from the fusion of two nascent souls and quantum essence that emerged after the quantum core explosion.
"Let's begin," he murmured as he lifted his hand.
At once, golden strands of light descended from above—manifestations of the Codex's inner cycle nodes activating. Each thread shimmered with dense runes and microscopic formations.
