First update today: Chapter 3537! 1/4! (All three of us tested positive. Feels like I've been slapped with a Wither debuff, so miserable!)
Piloting the Star Islands across this vast and strange Law River brought about a deeply unsettling sense of dislocation.
It was a contradictory feeling where reality and illusion blurred together—you knew clearly that you were moving. Whether from the faint tremors beneath your feet or the low, continuous hum produced by the island's underside scraping against the torrent of laws when you listened closely, everything signaled motion.
Yet when you looked around and tried to confirm that "movement" with your own eyes, you would fall into a cognitive quandary.
The surrounding scenery—whether it was the outline of Two Realms Mountain in the distance, eternally standing there without seeming to change, or the endless, brilliantly colored "river of light" beneath them, flowing slowly with a steady rhythm—resembled an incomparably magnificent yet motionless painting.
The island itself was like a tiny pebble embedded in that painting. No matter how hard the "passengers" within it tried, from an outside perspective, it seemed frozen in time, unable to move even an inch.
The stark contrast between "motion" and "stillness" lingered in the hearts of the Huang race, and before long, someone voiced a question.
In response to this widespread confusion, Xu Kun's voice slowly rang out beside their ears, explaining this strange sensory dissonance.
"Your feelings aren't wrong—in the domain of this Law River, the conventional concept of 'distance' is inherently illusory. And what we call 'sailing' right now cannot be measured by the outside world's perspective of cleaving through waves and billowing sails."
He paused, looking toward the outline of Two Realms Mountain, which stood eternally in the distance, seeming both within reach and impossibly far away. "There are