Many Flameyellow Divine Pillars shook, but they didn’t break. They were structures of an imperial-class world, after all, and wouldn’t be fragile.

“This is taking a bit of effort. It's like trying to drink from a whirlpool, but it isn’t that hard,” Wudi said. His analogy was apt. Violetglory was like a sphere of water that was relatively calm and easy to absorb. However, Primary was a nova source vortex. Although it took effort and was spilling everywhere, it didn’t have the protection of a fusion formation so it was actually being absorbed faster.

For Violetglory, the compression of its nova source inside made it seem like...