Upon reaching the planet's outer orbit, the Giant Moth released Kangqiao, and Kangqiao naturally floated there.
Kangqiao's eyes were filled with excitement.
For he had finally clearly seen the visible half of the planet he lived on.
To the north of the planet lay a vast stretch of land. It was shaped like an irregular quadrilateral, surrounded by sea and connected by a white Eternal Frozen Land.
The land was not particularly large compared to this half of the planet, but it was where land-dwelling life depended on for survival.
Looking down upon half the planet was certainly nice, but the atmosphere was filled with mist and dust. Even after Kangqiao adjusted his extraordinary vision, he could not make out much. All he could see were the rough outlines of the land and sea.
Overall, it was just so-so, though it gave Kangqiao a slight sense of novelty.
Kangqiao carefully examined this half of the planet, then turned his gaze toward the sun shining directly upon it.
Within the eternally silent darkness, that fireball was immense and dazzling.
Yet even so, in this universe filled with darkness, the sun was merely a tiny candle flame.
He looked out across the starry sky. Apart from the somewhat brighter sunlight, everything around him was utterly dark. The sea of stars was like an abyss. Even as enormous as Kangqiao was now, he seemed incomparably tiny before it.
Why was the Giant Moth unwilling to often come to outer space?
It was actually much like how land-dwelling Giant Beasts felt unsafe in the sky. The Giant Moth likewise felt insecure in outer space, while also feeling far too small.
Of course, that was not all.
When Kangqiao looked up at the pitch-black starry sky, his initial excitement lasted only a short while.
Very soon, Kangqiao finally noticed something strange.
He did not know whether it was an illusion, but noise suddenly appeared in his mind.
At first, the sound was faint and barely noticeable, but it rapidly grew louder and clearer.
There were flutes, drums, and the piercing clamor of metal crashing together...
All kinds of sounds gathered together, making it even more irritating than death metal.
Kangqiao was utterly stunned. The universe was a vacuum, so where had this strange, deafening noise come from?
He looked toward the Giant Moth. The Giant Moth merely blinked its large, innocent eyes at Kangqiao, indicating that this was simply how it was here and that it knew nothing.
At that moment, Kangqiao finally became cautious.
Perhaps this universe was not as simple as he had imagined!
Where exactly did this clamor come from? Was something lurking somewhere in the nearby starry expanse?
There was almost no dust-like matter in the vacuum of space. After adjusting his vision and ignoring the darkness, Kangqiao could observe an incredibly great distance.
Yet even so, he still could not see any living thing within the darkness.
The only things visible were scattered meteors and the moon, neither far nor near.
The moon reflected the sun's faint light. Because it was relatively close, Kangqiao could completely observe its surface.
But clearly, there was nothing on the moon. Its cratered surface was almost identical to the moon from Kangqiao's previous life.
That tumultuous noise came from somewhere even farther away, as though it originated at the center of the universe.
Kangqiao slightly closed his eyes and listened carefully, but the irritating sound suddenly vanished as though it had never existed.
What was that?
Kangqiao frowned, and the questions in his heart only multiplied.
But since he truly had no clue, Kangqiao could only give up thinking about it.
He would deal with soldiers when they came and block water with earth. As a Giant Beast who knew nothing, Kangqiao had no way to concern himself with matters too far away.
Even if there was a threat, all he could do now was grow as much as possible.
Speaking of growth, from the moment Kangqiao entered the planet's outer orbit, the sun's radiation in space and all manner of inexplicable rays had made him feel extremely comfortable.
Yes, it was even more pleasurable than soaking in magma.
Feeling the delight transmitted by every cell in his body, Kangqiao was naturally in a good mood at all times.
Except for that earlier noise, of course.
Temporarily setting aside his questions about the noise and maintaining his vigilance toward the dark starry expanse, Kangqiao's dorsal fins began to glow red. Then, he sprayed a thin beam of red light from his mouth.
Using the thrust from the flames to adjust his body, Kangqiao soon headed toward the orbit above the planet's other, dark side.
His rear became his front, while his head became his rear. This bizarre way of flying through a vacuum left the Giant Moth dumbfounded.
Then, following Kangqiao, the Giant Moth slightly stirred the wind element within its body and flew with him toward the other side of the planet.
What was on the planet's other side? Was there another continent?
There was indeed one, but what they saw left Kangqiao unable to describe the shock in his heart.
Because on the other half of the planet grew an unbelievably, unbelievably enormous tree!!!
Yes, when Kangqiao saw that the tip of a tree had actually grown beyond the planet's orbit, he nearly thought he was hallucinating.
Yet none of this was an illusion.
Yes, a tree truly had grown into the planet's orbit. Although its tip had merely just reached the outer orbit, it was already terrifying enough.
The Giant Moth had never wandered through outer space. In its entire life, it had only flown up twice before quickly fleeing back down.
So how could it have known that such an enormous tree existed on the other side of the planet?
The instant it saw the tree, the Giant Moth's eyes widened.
The tree was incomparably enormous and grayish-brown, with twelve leaves at its crown.
Yet those twelve leaves formed a platform as vast as a gigantic island.
However, its wonder did not end there.
For around the Giant Tree, there was actually an invisible barrier.
Like a hemisphere, it completely enveloped and isolated the planet's other half.
The Giant Moth had just wanted to dive down and stand upon the platform formed by the twelve leaves, but it crashed directly into the barrier, leaving it dizzy and crying out in pain.
Kangqiao stared blankly at this unreasonable sight for a long time.
For a moment, he did not even know what to say.
The Giant Moth clung to the invisible barrier created by the Giant Tree and desperately clawed at it with its forelimbs, but the result was obvious.
In the end, the Giant Moth even became angry. Beneath its broad feathered wings, countless dense pores opened along its wings, gathering the wind element.
Then, in space, an invisible storm slammed into the transparent, invisible barrier.
But in the instant the storm touched the barrier, it was completely absorbed.
At that moment, the Giant Moth's angry expression turned to astonishment. In the end, it could only look pitifully toward Kangqiao.
Seeing this, Kangqiao did not know whether to laugh or cry.
You haven't even figured out the situation, and you're already using your ultimate move? What if this Giant Tree is alive and can move, or has other miraculous abilities? Wouldn't you be bringing catastrophic trouble upon yourself?
Fortunately, the bloated, enormous giant tree continued to stand there calmly, without the slightest unusual movement.
Seeing that, Kangqiao grew even more curious.
The Giant Tree was already this huge, so how did the planet he lived on maintain a stable orbit?
Had it not been crushed? Had it not been drained dry? Did that make any sense?
By normal logic, the roots of such a huge tree should have filled the entire underground of the planet, shouldn't they?
Yet Kangqiao had never discovered any enormous roots on the half of the planet where he lived.
Besides, everyone lived on the same planet. How had this tree managed to avoid being discovered by other Giant Beasts?
The entire tree was unbelievably clean and primitive, without any sign of having been ravaged by Giant Beasts or other lifeforms.
And what was with the world shrouded in mist on one side of the Giant Tree, while the other side was a hellscape of surging flames?
Kangqiao realized that the knowledge from his previous life was no longer enough.
Conventional logic seemed to be of little use in this world.
Can someone tell me just what kind of messed-up world this is?
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