[Crimson City Sea Concert Hall: Aurora Eternal Sigh]
Snowflakes were still drifting down, landing on the stage carpet and quickly accumulating a thin layer.
Jing Liuli stood beneath the spotlight, eyes closed, her song continuing, but now with a touch more divine gentleness than before.
Ding!
A pale blue faint light suddenly illuminated behind her.
Then, this light grew brighter and gradually condensed into a colossal phantom.
The audience in the Site 13 was no stranger to this phantom. It was precisely the Frost God Phantom, the Ice and Snow Queen, which had appeared twice in the theatrical version.
The Queen's ice crystal skirt cascaded to the floor, each ice crystal reflecting the shadow of a snowflake.
Her silver hair fell to her waist, the ends trailing with fine snow, her gaze gentle yet possessing an undeniable majesty.
As the phantom grew clearer, a pale blue chill immediately spread outwards from the Queen's phantom as its center.
Strangely, this chill not only made no one feel cold but instead felt like being wrapped in a warm embrace. It was distinctly different from its previous two appearances, seemingly influenced by some kind of power.
Simultaneously, under the influence of this chill, the smiles on the faces of the audience below, immersed in their dreams, became strangely softer.
"The ritual has begun."
Tendo, who had long since awakened, walked over to Caroline's side, twirling a commemorative silver coin between his fingers. His cyan-blue eyes were fixed on the phantom above, a faint smile on his lips.
There was no reverence for a god, only an indescribable... curiosity.
In response, Caroline's cat ears twitched slightly. She looked up at Jing Liuli's back, a faint light flickering in her green eyes.
"Mm, the rest is up to Liuli."
As Caroline spoke, the surrounding snowflakes seemed to find their destination, beginning to approach the Queen's phantom, making its outline a little clearer.
At the same time, Jing Liuli's song gradually soared. Pale purple dream butterflies fluttered around the phantom, intertwining the two forces.
One was the 'God' of the Star Frost Faction, and the other was her 'Dream'.
Two utterly different forces were perfectly fusing at this moment.
Under the curious gaze of the Site 13 audience, the snowflakes above the stage were no longer scattered haphazardly. Instead, they began to converge towards the Queen's phantom, as if drawn by an invisible force.
Slowly, the outline of the Ice and Snow Queen's phantom became increasingly sharp; even the patterns on the ice crystal skirt were clearly visible, as if it had truly come alive.
Simultaneously, Jing Liuli's song suddenly elevated, no longer a gentle hum, but carrying a power of unwavering conviction, as if engaging in a kind of dialogue with some existence in the void.
In this strange situation, the Site 13 audience saw the Ice and Snow Queen phantom slowly raise its hand, its fingertip gently touching Jing Liuli's brow.
There was no sound, no words; She and Jing Liuli seemed to be performing some mysterious ceremony.
During this process, Jing Liuli's brow initially furrowed, as if struggling against something, but it soon smoothed out, a warm, faint smile curving her lips.
The next second, a scene that shocked countless people appeared.
The incredibly imposing Ice and Snow Queen phantom began to continuously contract.
The pale blue light gradually condensed, ultimately transforming from a colossal divine phantom into an exquisite, miniature ice and snow crown.
Petal-shaped ice crystals encircled the center of the crown, where a 'special gem' — a mixture of pale purple and pale blue — was embedded.
The ice crystal crown slowly descended, and upon landing on Jing Liuli's head, it suddenly turned into a beam of light and melted into her body.
Moments later, Jing Liuli slowly opened her eyes.
Her left pupil presented a pale blue, reflecting the shadows of snowflakes, like a perpetually frozen world of ice and snow.
Her right pupil maintained its original pale purple, with tiny dream butterfly light spots drifting deep within the iris, enchanting and ethereal like a dream.
And with Jing Liuli's 'awakening', the pale purple dream butterflies that had been continuously flitting throughout the concert hall suddenly shattered.
Amidst the sky full of purple light motes, Jing Liuli's surrounding Star Energy fluctuations surged at a visible speed, skyrocketing from the peak of Tier Two to the state of Tier Three Perfect, causing the very air to tremble.
Quickly, Jing Liuli's brand-new information appeared on the theatrical version screen.
[Name: Jing Liuli]
[Level: Tier Three Perfect Awakening]
[Star Core: Evernight Illusion Butterfly]
[Star Source: Daydream]
[Star Source: Daydream (Second Perfect Awakening)]
[Type: Trait-type Star Source]
[Effect 1. Daydreaming: Can enter a deep dream state while conscious, actively absorbing surrounding Dream Power (including subconscious dream thoughts scattered by others)]
[Effect 2. Sweet Dreams are Like Candy: Based on one's own/others' beautiful dream wishes, can materialize 'Sweet Dream Candy'—different wishes correspond to different effects (e.g., 'Calm Candy' alleviates anxiety, 'Courage Candy' boosts boldness). The candy's duration is positively correlated with the wish's intensity.]
[Second Awakening - Dreams Come True: Can materialize 'Creations' materialized within a dream, allowing them to exist in reality outside of the dream.
The actual power of the dream creation = 'Self Star Energy Intensity' × 'Dream Creation Spread Coefficient'.
Note: Spread = the number of people in reality who know about and approve of the dream creation. The higher the number, the higher the spread coefficient, which can reach a maximum of 'Legendary Tier'.]
Although after achieving the Second Perfect Awakening, the only new attribute added to Jing Liuli's Star Source effects was the one stating that 'real-world spread can influence dream creations.'
Yet, it was this single attribute that made the Site 13 audience understand the meaning of a 'monster'.
Because this meant that Jing Liuli's power was no longer determined solely by her own strength.
It was also related to her 'fame' in reality.
Because the so-called 'spread' could essentially be understood as popularity.
This ability, placed on anyone else, might be manageable, as it's no easy feat to create a legendary story that is widely known and accepted.
But when this ability appeared on Jing Liuli, it was completely different.
Because she was the New Federation's superstar, boasting tens of millions of fans!
If she wanted to disseminate something, even if the story was fictional.
As long as enough people believed it, that story could become real!
For example, she once sang about a 'Snow Knight who would protect everyone' in her song. If tens of millions of fans remembered this Snow Knight and approved of the Snow Knight's 'protective' setting.
Then the Snow Knight Liuli materialized could possess protective abilities exactly like those in the lyrics, or even more powerful ones.
At this moment, the significance of Jing Liuli's phrase 'turning the world into a dream' rose again.
Because the current her had already transformed this initially impractical 'fantasy' into a tangible 'reality'.
This girl who loved to dream was now truly capable of turning the entire world into the dream she desired!
In common parlance, making the false true.
Although the Site 13 audience often said that the Stars production team liked to give Tendo plot armor.
Now it seemed that the 'plot armor' Liuli received... didn't seem much smaller than Tendo's!
With Tendo ahead and Liuli behind, the Site 13 audience couldn't help but start feeling sympathy for Chen Kong.
Although Chen Kong also had his own 'plot armor', his currently seemed less overwhelmingly powerful than Tendo's and Liuli's.
Furthermore, it wasn't just Liuli; the strength-hiding Caroline, as well as Chen Xing, who clearly had more plot development coming, obviously also possessed their own 'plot armor'.
It turns out that, after all this, the ranking of the Children of the Stars isn't determined by 'talent' but by the size of their 'plot armor'!
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