With the corpse of the Turbid Lizard as a deterrent, Green enjoyed a relatively peaceful life within the Dimensional Esophagus at the Penetrating Gate gathering site.
Using bones as materials and solidified gelatinous adhesive to bind them together, Green spent several days constructing a modest yet fully equipped laboratory. Free from the reach of the Illusory World and the Time Storm, he devoted himself to studying the knowledge of the Key of Life while quietly waiting for a great world in the Material World to collapse and open a Penetrating Gate.
Before he knew it, several years had passed.
One day, while living a relatively leisurely life and expanding the Truth Book, Green suddenly sensed something. Startled, he raised his tricolored light eyes. After swiftly putting away his quill and the Truth Book, he stepped outside the laboratory.
Buzz...
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack...
The sharp, ear-piercing sound of spacetime shattering was like countless crystal panes grinding against one another in a cramped space, releasing a restless, suffocating din. Standing before the laboratory door, Green faced this immense Time Rift and sensed the waves of might gradually radiating from within the vast invisible Time Rift, which was as broad as the True Spirit Crater.
Green knew that a great world in the Endless World had collapsed.
Nothing could exist eternally. Even a great world whose rules formed the gentlest, most stable cycle would one day collapse and perish, obeying the dazzling, ever-changing balance of life and death, creation and destruction.
Under Green's gaze, beams of dark-red light bloomed one after another from the center of this unprecedentedly massive Time Rift. They contained abundant, restrained flame power brimming with vitality, making Green seem to witness the birth, prosperity, and end of a vibrant world of fire-element sprites.
Judging from the ripples of