"Begin."
The command passed through the Druidic Familiar blessing.
The Void Gu moved.
Countless tiny creatures entered Humeyin’s body almost simultaneously.
Some followed her blood vessels.
Others slipped through microscopic gaps in her physical structure.
Some moved toward her Spirit veins, while others followed the traces of bloodline power permeating her flesh.
Aksai immediately activated the formation.
The formation beneath Humeyin’s body began operating at a higher intensity, carefully regulating the interaction between the Void Gu, her bloodline, and the surrounding energy systems.
Aksai’s consciousness followed the Void Gu.
He didn’t merely control them.
He could see through them. He could feel what they felt. He could experience what they experienced.
This sensory sharing was on a deeper level than that achieved using the Beast Taming method. Since it was a Familiar, the sensory tree became a part of the same family in which Aksai and his consciousness acted as the family head.
Aksai’s first step was successful but at the same time—
His mind exploded with information.
His eyes snapped open.
"Fuuuuuuuuck—"
For a split second, he couldn’t understand anything.
There were too many sensations.
Too many perspectives.
Too many streams of information pouring into his consciousness simultaneously.
Billions of Void Gu were participating in the experiment.
Even after Aksai filtered out the overwhelming majority of them and limited direct sensory sharing to the Alpha Void Gu, which functioned as the leaders of their respective groups, the number remained absurd.
Millions.
Millions of sensory perspectives were reaching him at once.
It was like having millions of eyes watching almost the same object but through different angles.
One Void Gu sensed the movement of blood.
Another detected a change in temperature.
Another perceived a fluctuation in Spirit Essence.
Another sensed something within Humeyin’s bloodline.
Another detected the microscopic structure of her cells.
Another encountered a completely unfamiliar energy phenomenon.
And all of those observations were reaching Aksai.
At once.
His consciousness shook violently.
For an ordinary cultivator, such an influx of information would have been enough to cause a severe mental shock.
The Soul Space itself might have become destabilized. It might have turned them into an unstable lunatic.
But Aksai had prepared for this.
A split second after the initial shock, something immense emerged within his consciousness.
Verdant Elder.
The Aether Beast manifested within Aksai’s Soul Space.
Rather than attacking or suppressing the incoming information, Verdant Elder acted like a gigantic firewall.
The enormous sensory flood crashed against it.
The information was separated.
Filtered.
Sorted.
The useless sensory noise was discarded before it could reach Aksai’s conscious mind.
The remaining information was then processed through Verdant Elder’s inherent capabilities as an Aether Beast.
Only then did it proceed further.
But that still wasn’t enough.
Another layer activated.
Nuri.
The intelligence system immediately began processing the information that Verdant Elder had allowed through.
Nuri’s specially developed sensory-information-processing algorithm, created specifically for the Void Gu Hivemind, began categorizing the streams.
Duplicate information was compressed.
Similar sensory patterns were grouped together.
Irrelevant fluctuations were suppressed.
Important anomalies were highlighted.
Millions of individual perspectives were gradually transformed into comprehensible patterns.
Aksai finally breathed again.
The chaos somewhat disappeared. Not entirely but enough for him to think, observe, and understand.
Aksai couldn’t help but marvel at what had just happened.
Verdant Elder.
Nuri.
The Void Gu Hivemind.
Druidic Familiar.
The formation.
The Aether Crystals.
His understanding of bloodlines.
Each of them had been created or refined for completely different purposes.
Yet at this moment, they had come together like perfectly aligned cogs inside an enormous machine.
Without even one of those components, this experiment might have been impossible.
Aksai closed his eyes again.
And then—
He saw something he had never seen before.
The microscopic world inside Humeyin’s body opened before him.
It was beautiful.
Terrifying.
And completely incomprehensible.
Aksai had always imagined the microscopic world as something small.
Something that existed beneath ordinary perception. But that assumption had been wrong.
It wasn’t simply a smaller version of the world he already knew.
It was an entirely different world.
The Void Gu moved through it like explorers entering an unknown cosmos.
Aksai could see structures surrounding them that appeared impossibly vast from their perspective.
Streams of blood flowed like enormous rivers.
Individual cells resembled gigantic celestial bodies.
Spirit Essence moved through microscopic pathways like brilliant rivers of energy.
And beneath all of it was something else.
Something deeper.
Something that made Aksai’s attention immediately sharpen.
Bloodline power.
It wasn’t simply energy.
It had structure and patterns.
It permeated Humeyin’s body in a way that reminded Aksai of a cosmic view captured by the satellites from his previous homeworld, woven through the fabric of reality.
For a moment, he remembered looking at the night sky.
The vast void between the stars.
The gigantic planets.
The burning suns.
The enormous galaxies that stretched beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals.
That macroscopic universe had always seemed impossibly vast.
But now Aksai was witnessing its counterpart.
A microscopic void.
And just like the macroscopic void, it was filled with endless complexity.
There was only one major difference.
The universe outside was dominated by darkness.
This world wasn’t.
It was filled with colors.
Not merely red, blue, green, or yellow.
There were colors Aksai had never seen.
Colors that seemed to exist somewhere between several familiar colors.
Colors that shifted depending on how he looked at them.
Some flowed like liquid.
Some flickered like flames.
Some pulsed rhythmically.
Others seemed completely motionless despite constantly changing.
Aksai instinctively attempted to analyze them.
Nuri responded immediately.
Data began pouring through her analytical systems.
Patterns were compared.
Frequencies were categorized.
Energy signatures were measured.
Bloodline patterns that existed among different cellular structures were mapped.
Yet even Nuri struggled.
The number of variables was simply too great.
Aksai stared through the Void Gu’s senses.
His expression slowly became one of disbelief.
"So many..."
Even after Nuri’s analytical capabilities were brought to bear, the colors that represented the bloodline information remained beyond complete comprehension.
There were simply too many.
And they weren’t merely visual phenomena.
Each color seemed to correspond to something.
A different property.
A different interaction.
A different layer of existence.
Aksai watched one particular stream of color pass through a microscopic structure.
The moment it interacted with another color, the entire region changed.
Another color emerged.
Then another.
It was like watching the birth of something entirely new. It was like watching the birth of a new star in a fast-forwarded clip.