Real Beards and Fake Beards

"I feel like this is already another world. We still can't become God Lords here?"

Shi Jiu reached out of the car window, fluctuations of the spatial sequence rippling around her fingertips as she gently traced the space outside.

Space was like water, faint ripples spreading beneath Shi Jiu's fingertips.

The Order Divine Artifact explained, "That's because the world power from the other side of the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone is covering this world."

"The Mercyfire Forbidden Zone was the first Human Forbidden Zone to overlap with this world, and it's also the one with the greatest influence on it."

"Under the influence of that world's power, the Skyvault Desert expands every year..."

Jiang Fu glanced around.

"You're not doing anything about it?"

The Order Divine Artifact said, "That's not my department."

Jiang Fu understood.

The Order Divine Artifact handled external affairs.

Youlan handled internal affairs.

This sort of thing should have been Youlan's responsibility.

Then.

Jiang Fu remembered the scene at the mahjong table.

"Does that Youlan guy have a procrastination problem?"

He seemed to habitually put everything off until tomorrow.

And then tomorrow became another tomorrow.

Shi Jiu exclaimed, "He definitely does!"

They had drifted at sea for over half a month.

Then they had gone back to school and waited another seven days.

Youlan had never shown up.

They had thought he was preparing some grand move.

But it turned out...

Procrastination?

The Order Divine Artifact coughed. "It's not like he's done nothing at all."

"Over thirty years ago, he strengthened the spatial restrictions in District One Hundred Forty-Four, ensuring the Skyvault Desert could only expand within that district."

"That also caused the Otherworld's power inside the Skyvault Desert to grow stronger and stronger, stretching the space larger and larger..."

"Of course, the Skyvault Desert is only being