After devouring the Void-Origin Dragon, the rolling gray mist moved like a starving pack with a single will.
It surged faster into the depths of the surrounding void, toward the countless realm-bubbles gleaming invitingly.
But the distances between the realms were simply too vast.
Even the gray mist's rapid advance could not bridge them.
Fortunately, the precious data provided by the Void-Origin Dragon brought the Gray Gu another crucial evolution.
They unlocked the ability to leap through spacetime.
In an instant, the rolling gray mist spreading outward like a tide changed form.
It no longer hung in vast, dense clouds. Instead, it began to flicker violently.
Cluster after cluster vanished from where they floated, like frames skipping in a film.
A moment later, they crossed immense distances and appeared outside realms on the far side of the void.
Their arrival points were precise: the weakest spots in the realms' outer walls.
Then they began their merciless invasion, entering those unfamiliar realms and devouring everything.
From that moment on, the Myriad Heavens and Realms faced the most terrifying disaster since the birth of the universe.
The Gray Grub Storm had finally become a Cosmic Plague in the truest sense.
Leaping through spacetime, the Gray Gu struck at countless points across the vast void.
Clusters of gray spots attached themselves to one colorful mortal realm after another.
The spots rapidly spread, like ink dropped onto paper.
At last, they dyed each entire bubble a lifeless gray. Then—bang! The bubbles burst apart, spawning yet more gray mist.
Over the next half month,
hundreds of millions of mortal realms collapsed and vanished within a void so vast that mortals could scarcely comprehend it.
As for the countless living beings, sweeping lands, and brilliant civilizations within those realms—
all became fuel for the Gray Grub