Node World

Jiro, Sennō, Zeus, and Guang Cai Lao, standing on one of the fragments of Earth, also sensed that something was wrong with their surroundings.

"Little Jiro, this place is strange!" Sennō wrapped an area spanning dozens of square kilometers in high-pressure aura.

Jiro nodded. "Earth is devoid of life not because of Acacia's Gourmet Fist, but because this place never had any life to begin with."

Zeus and Guang Cai Lao, who had only just regained consciousness, stared at the shattered Earth in horror.

"Isn't this Earth?" Zeus asked in disbelief.

Jiro pointed at a group of Gourmet World creatures frozen in place nearby. "There's no life inside them."

Zeus leaped over and picked up a giant python. Just as Jiro had said, it contained no life. Still unwilling to accept it, he grabbed several other Gourmet World creatures and found the same result every time.

Every creature in this region seemed to have been frozen in time.

"Gulp... How is this possible? Even the bacteria are dead?" Cold sweat dripped uncontrollably from Zeus's forehead.

Guang Cai Lao, who could absorb the energy of living beings, discovered an even more terrifying fact. Trembling, he picked up one of the mammoths. "Not only is there no life in them, there isn't even any energy inside their bodies."

Zeus's eyes widened. "Guang Cai Lao! What do you mean, no energy?"

He sliced off a piece of meat and swallowed it, only to spit it back out. "There really isn't any energy. It's like eating a stone."

The four of them silently watched everything before them.

Acacia and Symmetry, floating above another fragment of Earth, were staring intently at Wang Gao in the distance.

"What did you do?" Acacia asked.

Wang Gao replied with a smile, "I simply felt that Earth was