(*^▽^*)The vast world was no match for a good meal
There was no earth-shaking commotion, no dazzling burst of spiritual light.
Only an extremely faint, almost imperceptible ripple of fluorescent spiritual energy spread from her fingertips toward the sky, like ripples on water, and silently vanished into the night.
In the next instant!
A scene that everyone in the flower hall, the warm pavilion, and the courtyard outside would remember for the rest of their lives unfolded before them:
The night sky, which had been bathed in moonlight and glittering with stars, seemed to be instantly covered by an immense, ink-black curtain. The bright full moon had actually disappeared?
And the countless twinkling stars had disappeared too!
Even...
The hazy apparition of the White Jade Capital, suspended high in the heavens beyond the thirty-third heaven and symbolizing the Heavenly Court's supreme authority, had vanished without a trace!
In a moment, the entire sky became a pure, unfathomable darkness that made one's heart tremble.
The key was that this wasn't the gloom of clouds obscuring the sky. It was as if the entire sky itself had been obscured—or rather, erased and utterly devoured—leaving behind an absolute "nothingness."
Even more terrifyingly, though the courtyard, flower hall, and floating islands near and far still had light, the disappearance of the moon and the starry sky brought with it an indescribable aura, as if from the chaos and annihilation that had existed before the world began. It silently spread like a cold tide.
The sensation was faint, but everyone present who possessed cultivation—including Grandmother Jia—felt their souls tremble and their minds quake, as if their very foundations of the Way were about to crumble before that pure darkness.
The maids and older servants with little or no cultivation, as well as Baoyu, who had