Everyone assumed that the earlier darkness followed a rule, advancing by a quarter of an hour every interval. Even Chen Shi thought so.
Yet this time, the sun remained dark for a day and a night before brightening once more, indicating that the rule they perceived was most likely no rule at all!
They were merely watching the sky from the bottom of a well, imagining they had observed a pattern and taking that pattern for truth, but on a grander timescale, the patterns and truths they observed would cease to exist.
This time the sun went out for a day and a night, and next time, perhaps once the sun went out, it would never shine again!
The ancestors of the Thirteen Noble Families in the Upper Realm must know about the end of the True King Era. They survived and continue to this day! They surely know how to deal with this catastrophe!
Chen Shi suddenly realized that although he had been to the Upper Realm, he did not know how to get there.
The Thirteen Noble Families had prepared for thousands of years, and if the Upper Realm could be found so easily, Despair Slope would likely have eradicated it long ago.
Granny Sha arrived at Huangpo Village. Her appearance was now that of a great maiden in her early twenties, graceful and poised. Ever since she regained her youth, she had rarely been flustered, but at this moment she had lost her wits.
"Little Ten, I have never seen such a thing in my life."
She was exceptionally terrified, murmuring, "I have never seen... Where is your father? Finding your father won't do, your father is no good, this matter requires your grandpa, he always has plenty of crafty ideas..."
She muttered to herself, pacing back