A strange feeling spread from the depths of his heart, as if his consciousness had instantly crossed a distant stretch of space-time too vast for words, been extracted, and sent to the edge of the universe. Yet before Yu Sheng could confirm what the feeling was, he saw all the starlight in his vision begin to tremble violently. Immediately afterward, the phantom image of the great ship dissolved into countless chaotic ripples.
He instinctively took half a step back, only to see the rift before him vanish amid the tremors. Spreading pure-white crystal branches filled the space left behind by the disappearing rift, while new rifts began brewing again within the gaps between the branches.
Yu Sheng opened his eyes. His consciousness had undergone a long journey and returned to the courtyard once more.
The towering Crystal Tree that blocked out the sky still stood before him. Within the countless tiny space-time rifts hidden in its canopy, light and shadow drifted as the tree continued to grow slowly.
Luna immediately sensed that something was wrong and took two steps forward. "Are you all right? What happened?"
"...I think I saw something incredible." Yu Sheng rubbed his forehead and slowly spoke after taking a moment to recover. "Luna, did anything happen to this tree just now? During that brief moment when I was 'lost in thought'?"
Luna immediately shook her head. "No."
"Is that so..."
Yu Sheng spoke thoughtfully as he looked up at the Crystal Tree before him, at its enormous canopy that had already covered the entire courtyard, and at the tiny streams of light hidden among the branches.
The characteristics of the Boundary Bridge... connecting space-time... the knowledge that surged into my mind... Did that scene just now really come from the edge of the universe?
"Luna, keep