Ten thousand worlds, ten thousand pictures. Yu Xunge painted aboard the Cat's Ideal, year after year.
When she reached a thousand pictures, World Sigh seemed to sense the painting's existence. Whenever she finished a puzzle piece, World Sigh's pages rustled through her consciousness.
When Yu Xunge opened the book to its first page, the paper puzzle piece on the table, roughly twenty centimeters on each side, would shrink and float toward World Sigh, automatically fitting into its proper place.
Although it was only one-tenth complete, whenever World Sigh appeared and opened its pages to take in a new puzzle piece, every player who saw this portion of the illustration would stop in their tracks.
Whether they were Star Sea Players or Mountain Players, Star Sea Gods or Mountain Gods, they would all pause before this painting.
Because this illustration was Star Sea, and Mountains too.
Aboard the Cat's Ideal were the Star Sea Worlds drifting in disorder, but their backdrop was the Quiet Mountains. Above the illustration was Mountains' tranquil sky, in the distance was Mountains' curling chimney smoke, and below was Mountains' black earth.
As another puzzle piece floated onto World Sigh and joined the others, Mountains Xunge, who had been standing behind Yu Xunge and silently watching for a long time, spoke. "I thought you'd kill Su Yitong and Liang Yuchuan."
What an abrupt change of subject. Yu Xunge turned to look at Mountains Xunge, slightly surprised. She knew that after breaking free of the God's Gift, the other woman had gained all her memories from before Mountains copied her. For Mountains Xunge, even if she didn't consider herself and Yu Xunge the same person, she should still have wanted revenge for what had happened to her in Zai Jiu.
But why had she waited so long to