Since she had nothing better to do, Bai Fu entrusted the Heavenly Ark to Yulia for safekeeping, then boarded a ship with Dmitry and headed to the Empire.
Although the Painter had never joined the Empire, she had always lived in its Abyss of Stars region.
Abyss of Stars bordered the Star-Ring Islands and Titan Industries. It was slightly smaller than Edge World and contained a great many ancient galaxies, packed close together, colliding, tearing at one another, and merging.
On top of that, a very unusual gravitational anomaly lay at the "center" of Abyss of Stars, pulling every surrounding galaxy toward it.
These two phenomena had earned this large-scale, filamentary galactic structure, spanning more than a billion light-years, the name Abyss of Stars.
Unlike the Star-Ring Islands, the Crown of the Universe, and Vast Continent, Abyss of Stars had very few permanent residents.
Of course, "few" was only relative. The intelligent life living there still couldn't be measured simply in hundreds of millions.
The Empire's development of Abyss of Stars was primarily research-oriented.
The subject that demanded the most effort from the Empire was the study of the gravitational anomaly.
For years, the Empire had sent large numbers of researchers to the area around it, hoping to understand the true cause of the abnormal gravity and fluctuations in spatial curvature. Unfortunately, even now, no theory had emerged that most of the academic community would accept.
There were no massive celestial bodies in the vicinity, and the gravity of the other nearby superclusters wasn't enough to make space this abnormal.
Perhaps Abyss of Stars would only be truly understood once the Empire had completely mastered "dimensions."
"I heard the Painter lives in Abyss of Stars to study that gravitational anomaly."
"Like you, the Painter is a Psychic Artist, but she