On the shattered firmament, visions of world after world appeared one after another, stretching deep into the starry sky.
Gu Qingshan studied the shifting images and said, "Give me some advice."
Lin glanced at them. "Just find an uninhabited world. With a Tribulation of Measurable Quantity, it's best not to be somewhere crowded with people."
"I know. The more people the tribulation touches, the more violently it'll spread," Gu Qingshan said.
He picked a desolate, lifeless world and pointed to it. "Let's go there."
"That one doesn't feel right. Pick another," Lin said, glancing at it.
Gu Qingshan hesitated, then quickly turned his attention to the other worlds.
He took Lin's advice so seriously because, although she was badly wounded, she had retained her cultivation.
With her level of strength, her sense of danger was far sharper than Gu Qingshan's.
Gu Qingshan pointed to a blue world.
"How about this one?" he asked.
"I've been there. Humans live underground, so it isn't uninhabited."
"All right. What about this one?"
"Mm, this one looks suitable."
Lin agreed.
Their gazes settled on the image of a desolate world.
A moment later,
a flying boat shot into the sky, pierced through the world's barrier, and flew toward an uninhabited world.
Behind it, the world's collapse was rapidly worsening.
A world made entirely of diamond.
There was no life of any kind.
The entire world was one enormous diamond.
Yet this diamond was not a planet, nor did it drift through space.
It wandered alone through another world, one filled with seawater, as one of that world's subworlds.
Following the breach Gu Qingshan had carved through the void, the flying boat entered this diamond realm.
Gu Qingshan leaped down from the flying boat.
To avoid being caught in the aftermath, Mountain Girl took