While the enemy held back from striking again, Huang Ji sent Heavenly Decline, Lin Li, and the others away.
They had entered a dimension below the lower dimension, and their technology no longer worked there. Heavenly Decline and the others had no time to waste. They activated their return at once and appeared at a random point in the distant stars.
It seemed random, but Huang Ji had timed it perfectly. Heavenly Decline and the others emerged near a quasar fourteen billion light-years away.
A quasar looked like a star, but it was not one. It looked like a galaxy, but it was not one of those either. It emitted radio waves thousands upon thousands of times stronger than an ordinary galaxy.
In other words, it was a monster the size of the Sun with the mass of several thousand Milky Way Galaxies.
"What luck! Just what I'd expect of myself!" Heavenly Decline was delighted to find a quasar nearby.
Quasars were the oldest celestial bodies in the universe, known as primordial giant stars. Each had a black hole at its core, surrounded by matter amounting to trillions of solar masses. Though it looked like a star, its light came not from nuclear fusion, but from black hole radiation.
Before stars were born, these were the only celestial structures in the universe. Back then, quasars filled the cosmos. The period was known as the Giant Star Era.
Every giant star had thousands, even tens of thousands, of times the mass of what people now called a galaxy.
Of course, after more than ten billion years, most quasars had collided and shattered into star clusters and groups. A few had had all their matter swallowed by their black holes, leaving only enormous black holes to evaporate slowly.
Quasars that still existed