The expression on Gu Yuena's face slowly froze.
"What is that?"
Lin Yan immediately sank his consciousness into the Small World.
The next moment.
"Thud—!"
The third slap landed.
The instant that terrifying force struck the world's membrane in earnest, something happened.
The entire Small World seemed to have been rammed from outside by some indescribable behemoth.
Space shook first.
Then, starting at the world's edges, the tremors spread inward, layer after layer.
The earth split open with a thunderous roar.
Countless rocks shot into the air as cracks rapidly spread through the mountain ranges.
The oceans erupted all at once.
Towering waves piled atop one another, crashing in every direction.
Even the celestial bodies that had only recently formed in the sky were not spared.
Their orbits, which had gradually stabilized, all briefly shifted as the spatial tremors swept past.
Back in reality.
Lin Yan unconsciously tightened his grip on his chopsticks.
Crack.
They snapped clean in two.
He did not even have time to look down.
Gu Yuena stopped scolding him for being picky, too.
A moment ago, she had looked ready to pin Lin Yan down and stuff every last bite into his mouth. Now the dragon froze completely, as though someone had suddenly immobilized her.
Their consciousnesses passed beyond the interior of the Small World almost simultaneously, looking into a dimension no ordinary living being could ever observe directly.
Then.
They saw the enormous phantom of a young woman.
Through the Small World's spatial barrier, she was gazing longingly outside.
She was immense.
So immense that nothing within the Small World could serve as a measure of her size.
Yet she showed no obvious hostility whatsoever.
No killing intent, no fury, not even any real desire to attack.
What she displayed was mostly the curiosity of