The human woman hesitated for only an instant before making her decision.
This temple was humanity's last fortress. It had stood unbreached within the Seventeenth Heaven for so many years, and she would never let this opportunity slip away!
She gave a slight wriggle from inside the Red Ball. As her snake tail swayed, she followed closely after Luo Zheng and Feng Ge.
Luo Zheng stepped onto the starry pattern.
The pattern seemed to be made of viscous mercury. The instant Luo Zheng's feet touched it, starlight bloomed forth and swallowed him whole.
"Luo Zheng!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Feng Ge leaped onto the starry pattern. She vanished in an instant as well.
Next came the human woman...
"Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz..."
The instant the starlight swallowed him, countless points of light descended over Luo Zheng's head.
Stars filled the heavens, suspended at the edge of the sky like a silver river.
Back in the universe, Luo Zheng had marveled at its starlight. But compared with the scene before him, the stars in his father's World Within were merely a drop in the ocean. The starlight overhead was so abundant it was nearly impossible to count...
The stars descended across the sky, swept past the corners of Luo Zheng's eyes, and began rapidly moving away from him.
Only when a rushing wind swept past Luo Zheng's ears did he realize that it was not the stars moving away from him—he was plummeting downward at incredible speed.
Below him lay a continent in the pitch-black night. It had originally been as tiny as a palm, but within Luo Zheng's vision, it rapidly expanded, growing from a palm into a map, and then from a map into a vast stretch of land...
I'm going to crash!
As he watched the ground rushing