Chapter 1924: Eternal Fall Empire
"Ascend, ascend?"
"I Love Eating Buns" froze, staring wide-eyed at the other party. It took him a long while to recover.
"Me, ascend?"
"Of course. Since your family is so wealthy, why not simply upgrade from a smuggling fleet into a spacefaring civilization? Wouldn't that be better?"
"No, this... I... Boss, isn't this 'offline world' fake? Even if it's one of the possible worlds, can it still ascend? Isn't ascension a basic setting of the main universe?"
"I Love Eating Buns" asked cautiously.
Gao Gong said nothing. He merely wore an inscrutable smile.
He slowly raised his right hand, palm facing upward, his five fingers naturally spread.
A faint yet pure radiance quietly emerged from his palm.
At first, the point of light was as small as a firefly. But in the blink of an eye, it expanded and blossomed, transforming into a gentle yet vast stream of light whose color and texture defied description.
"The Light of Ascension"!!
It was neither as glaring as an explosion nor as scorching as starlight. It was more like an essential radiance flowing from another dimension, another level of existence, carrying a tranquil, unquestionable power that cleansed away all mortal things.
The radiance poured down like a waterfall. It did not scour things in any physical sense, but rather "covered" them on the level of existence.
That enormous fleet, composed of countless luxurious interstellar warships and symbolizing supreme wealth and power, along with the dazzling imperial robe worn by "I Love Eating Buns" and the golden information streams flowing through the holographic star map behind him, representing his commercial empire—
Everything instantly became... insignificant beneath the shroud of the "Light of Ascension."
The radiance did not destroy them. The ships still floated, the imperial robe still clothed him,