After finishing the telepathic transmissions with the five madams of Stone Ridge Spirit Academy and savoring that Eight-Treasure Wishful Cake carrying the sweet fragrance of home, the warm aura around Chu Qing gradually drew inward, once more becoming a tranquil, unfathomably deep pool. The Eternal Heavenly Palace bid farewell to the silent wreckage of the "Ark of Origin," transformed into a streak of purple-gold radiance that spanned the void, and sped toward the most secluded, eternal core of the Lightless Sea.
The farther they advanced into the depths, the more bizarre and grotesque the surrounding world became. Here, even the ordinary references of up, down, left, and right, along with the flow of time, had completely vanished, leaving behind only pure nothingness and broken strata. Yet just as the Eternal Heavenly Palace pierced through a sheer canyon woven from collapsed causality, the aura of the entire Abyss abruptly froze.
At an extremely high point in the void, a pale, sinister slit several hundred million zhang long split open without warning. It was no ordinary spatial rift, but a colossal eye—cold, ruthless, and utterly beyond the understanding of the myriad heavens and worlds! Within that eye was no trace of human emotion, only an arrogance, indifference, and scrutiny unchanged through the ages.
This was the Observer Civilization, the ultimate high-dimensional power hidden in the depths of the Lightless Sea, which had once presided over the destruction and resetting of several Epochs!
"Detected a low-dimensional anomalous variable exceeding the critical threshold... It dares to attempt contact with transcendental-dimensional authority."
Within the void, countless overlapping, grand divine wills exploded like thunder, as though billions of Gods and Devils were passing judgment simultaneously. The leading will of the Observer Civilization descended across the void, its gaze locking onto Chu Qing on the deck of