Where exactly do things like the pillars of the world stand?
This was a question Fu Qian often wanted to ask when faced with all those legendary tales.
The supernatural might ignore science, but it still had to make sense.
It was hard to imagine that the many Higher Beings he had encountered, and their powers, full of concepts and symbolism, applied only to this tiny planet before him.
Take the sun and moon, for instance.
The Unseeable Wheel might have looked thoroughly dead, but surely it was more than a mere ball of fire. It should have embodied a concept like light.
As for the moon, there was no need to mention the Red Moon hanging outside. It had most likely been dragged into the role at the last minute.
The Witch's earlier displays of power alone had been terrifying enough to seem like the dark side of the universe.
Not to mention the bone-chilling display put on by the First Generation Dark Moon during that Long Night.
Fu Qian felt the same applied to things like the Forsaken Prison.
Its exact nature might not yet be entirely clear, but within the supernatural order, it seemed like the ultimate embodiment of certain concepts—perhaps even more extreme than the Higher Beings.
You could get a sense of that from the title King of Prison Break.
Then there was the Abyss, which Warehouse had personally confirmed existed as a pillar of the world.
Given all that, a key question arose.
It was understandable that the Higher Beings had gathered together amid their grudges and feuds, then, after the Long Night, for various reasons, some had hidden behind the barrier while others wandered outside.
But what reason could there be for all these ultimate embodiments of the universe's primordial forces to coincidentally