The strangely pale-purple sky spread over the desolate alien land. The sunlight, distant enough to look pale and cold, illuminated an impact zone so vast it stretched beyond sight. Looking toward the center from within the crater, one felt as though the entire land had caved slightly inward toward a single point ahead.
The faint sunlight in the sky shone upon the center of this "basin," casting an illusory glow across the melted, glass-like ground.
Aside from that, this barren alien land was almost completely silent—even when a breeze occasionally drifted past, it was so weak that one could almost doubt whether it had truly brushed one's ears.
"Before we came, Xuan Che told me that a 'barren planet' without terrestrial ley lines is like this," Yu Sheng muttered to Eileen in his arms. "There's almost no geological activity. Even if there's an atmosphere, it's usually in a state of near stagnation. All material cycles are incredibly slow. That's precisely why the 'corpse planets' with ecosystems on them seem even more bizarre."
"This area is huge..." Eileen muttered. "It's hard to imagine that ordinary mortals could create this kind of spectacle by fighting... Even if it was that bunch of 'deities,' it still seems ridiculous that they could self-destruct and create such a vast geological landscape, right?"
"That shows, from another angle, just how powerful the enemy Yun Qingzi faced back then truly was," Yu Sheng said slowly. "The frightening part isn't that he created such a huge crater by self-destructing. The frightening part is that after such an astonishing self-destruction... he still might not have defeated that enemy."
Huli remained in her Nine-tailed Silver Fox form. She carefully lowered her head and sniffed the surrounding scents, then followed the impact folds along the crater's edge, moving forward in circles.