Clearly, the anchor maintaining this rift was collapsing.
When he had flown past the rift on the airship earlier, he had already sensed that its condition was unstable.
Lu Yuan did not know who exactly was maintaining the anchor of this rift.
The Tower of Erudition's so-called Sea of Knowledge Fishing Project had claimed to be thoroughly prepared, but its actual performance had been terrible:
During the first fishing, if his Sanity had not been high enough, he would likely have failed on the spot;
He had not been present for the second one, and the plan had failed outright, even causing the Sea of Knowledge to leak. Fortunately, it had been intercepted quickly enough. The third had not seemed much better either. As for this time, who knew what they had brought out again.
With Lu Yuan's arrival, Authority descended, and everything in the Sea of Knowledge changed.
The churning, contracting sea suddenly stopped. The collapse ceased, and even the text fragments that had dimmed lit up again at that moment.
The edges of the rift no longer trembled. Under the cover of his Authority, the entire Sea of Knowledge became completely stable.
The golden radiance cast down by the phantom of the Crown of Ten Thousand Kings overhead landed on the sea without stirring even the faintest ripple.
Lu Yuan stepped into the Sea of Knowledge.
Unlike last time, the sea was empty. There was no floating corpse from the previous fishing, nor were there any chaotic Afterimages.
Before him were only endless words, suspended above the sea and extending in every direction to the limits of his sight.
And far away stood a figure.
That figure was somewhat blurry, entirely translucent, its outline and features difficult to make out.
Text fragments continuously flowed over him before fading