Chaos Heavens, Ancestral Erebus Land.
Within his training chambers, floating in the air, Eli seemed completely different than the young boy Orion had met all those years ago.
His gaze was calm, cold and disant as his presence seemed utterly disconnected from the world around him, as if existing in its own plane of creation.
Around him, though invisible to the naked eye, a myriad of runes floated about and assembled, slowly forming a gigantic formation all around him.
His aura surged, revealing his cultivation at the peak of the Law realm as he hastened the process and completed the formation in an instant.
His bloodline churned and his Empyrean powers raged to life as time halted and his dominion was enacted.
The formation around him lit up as emerald fumes of energy swallowed him whole and he vanished.
A few moments later, his vision cleared and he appeared in a familiar place.