Lu Jun's Dream, the Source of the Anomaly?

At that moment, Lu Jun felt as though he had fallen into a long, bizarre dream.

In the dream, he found himself in the cold, deathly silent, boundless depths of outer space.

Eternal darkness and nothingness surrounded him, with only distant stars giving off faint glimmers of light.

He had no idea why he was there. He only felt the vacuum pressing in like invisible tides from all directions, seeping into every limb, every bone, even the depths of his soul, bringing an indescribable heaviness and exhaustion.

His eyelids felt as though they had been filled with lead. No matter how hard he tried, he could not open them, and his consciousness repeatedly hovered on the brink between wakefulness and oblivion.

In the dream, he seemed to be in an utterly terrible state—gravely wounded and barely alive. In the end, he completely lost consciousness and could only place the last remnant of his origin within the Ice Abyss Sword.

And so, he followed the Ice Abyss Sword as it began drifting aimlessly through the universe.

The Ice Abyss Sword seemed to have lost control, radiating an ultimate chill far beyond Absolute Zero.

Wherever it passed, even space itself seemed to freeze. Any planets or planes it occasionally encountered, carrying faint traces of life or energy, would have their surfaces covered in a layer of eternal frost the moment it drew near. Life was extinguished, energy stagnated, as though they had been struck by a cosmic winter.

Like a wandering calamity star that represented "ending" and "freezing," the Ice Abyss Sword drifted silently through the universe, leaving behind a frozen trail.

And from the dream's perspective, Lu Jun could "see" a massive, filthy dark-red aura filled with hunger and destructive desire—Abyss Energy—following directly behind the Ice Abyss Sword's path.

It greedily