Lin Yan Collapsed from Mushroom Poisoning, Gu Yuena Hung in the Sky as a Backup Power Source

Lin Yan fell silent.

The air suddenly went quiet.

He really did not understand.

Or rather, he had never even considered this question.

In the world inside that old pot, the sun simply did not exist.

The world had been too small.

Its only source of light had been the dim yellow bulb in the kitchen.

But this world had now expanded to the size of a basketball court.

It had a complete atmosphere, oceans, land, and an ecosystem.

The foundation of an ecosystem was photosynthesis.

The foundation of photosynthesis was light.

Without light, everything was doomed.

These past few days, they had barely managed to hold on with the weak light from the bulb.

During the day, they could also go outside to bask in the sun and have Gu Yuena produce more light elements to muddle through.

But now the power was out.

This seemed rather bad.

He tried to mobilize the authority of time and space to interfere with the flow of time in the small world.

Then his expression changed.

His Soul Power was running dry.

Today, he had made over twenty Space Teleportations at maximum range in a row.

He had also force-ripened a huge patch of mushrooms.

His Soul Power had long since been squeezed completely dry.

And this world was different from the world inside that old pot.

The world in the pot had been created by him alone. He could alter its flow of time however he wished, as easily as turning a faucet.

But this world had now expanded hundreds or even thousands of times over.

The consumption of his time authority had likewise increased hundreds or thousands of times.

It was like trying to stop a train barreling along at full speed.

With his current Soul Power, he simply could not stop it.

He could only watch as the entire world's flow of time continued surging forward at high speed through inertia.

"...There's nothing I can do."

He spread his hands, his voice as calm as if he were discussing what to have for dinner.

"Next epoch, then."

He no longer cared.

It was the perfect time to harvest another batch.

Every time he had wanted to harvest these past few days, this stupid dragon had stopped him.

She had clung to his leg, wailing and begging him for another chance.

He had given her chance after chance.

And what had happened?

She had drained the world's origin dry.

She had emptied out the world's elemental power.

More importantly, he felt that if this did not stop, this world would lose control sooner or later.

It would have been fine if he had been growing fast enough.

But unfortunately, he was growing far too slowly.

And he was so sleepy right now.

His head hurt terribly.

The aftereffects of mushroom poisoning still buzzed inside his head. He did not want to move at all.

"What did you say?"

Gu Yuena's pupils abruptly contracted.

Even though she had long known how cold-blooded this bastard was.

Nine epochs—he could destroy them at a word without even blinking.

But hearing him personally pronounce a world's death sentence in such a casual tone still sent a chill through her heart.

Billions upon billions of lives in an epoch.

The foundation she had spent all these days carrying back, stone by stone and handful by handful of dirt.

He was just giving up on it.

He had not even suggested going downstairs to leech some electricity.

"I said, there's nothing I can do."

Lin Yan leaned against the wall, his voice hoarse and calm.

So calm that it made her heart turn cold.

"If some dragon hadn't drained all my world origin dry."

"If she hadn't emptied the entire world's elemental power to put on that ridiculous show."

"I could still make a sun."

"But now, there's nothing left."

"The world origin is at zero."

"My Soul Power is running dry."

"What exactly do you expect me to use to save it?"

Gu Yuena opened her mouth.

She wanted to argue.

She wanted to say, "You were the one who told me to put on a show."

She wanted to say, "I didn't know this would happen either."

She wanted to say, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

But nothing came out.

Because she saw the flash of exhaustion in his eyes.

It was not an act.

He had truly been drained dry.

He really had no way to save it.

Lin Yan rummaged through a drawer and pulled out a rope.

It was the coarse hemp rope they had used to tie up sacks of mushrooms before, with a few dried mushroom scraps still clinging to it.

He reached out and scooped up the still-dazed Gu Yuena.

"What are you doing—"

Gu Yuena's eyes widened.

Lin Yan ignored her.

He wrapped the rope around her twice and tied a dead knot.

Her round belly bulged beneath the tight binding, making her look like a rice dumpling trussed up in every direction.

Then he lifted her into the air and threw her into the small world.

Her true body was restrained.

"Glow."

He said.

Gu Yuena's expression shifted from confusion to shock.

From shock to anger.

From anger to disbelief.

She was suspended in the sky of the small world.

The rope cinched tightly around her belly.

Her four short little legs flailed helplessly in the air.

"—You want me to be the sun?!"

"You're the Silver Dragon King to begin with."

"Both light and dark elements are within your domain."

"Making light doesn't take much effort for you."

Lin Yan yawned.

Leaning against the wall, his eyelids were already beginning to droop.

"Just hang up there as a little sun and keep this world alive for a few more decades."

"Once I recover some Soul Power, I'll pay the electric bill tomorrow and see if it can still be saved."

"If it can't, forget it."

"Next epoch."

"Forget it?!"

Gu Yuena's voice cracked.

It was as shrill as a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"What do you mean, forget it?!"

"That world is something I spent so many days painstakingly building, brick by brick!"

"My people are in there!"

"Di Tian is in there!"

"Brigitte is in there!"

"And—"

"Then don't touch my world origin next time."

Lin Yan's voice was very soft.

Soft as a needle falling to the ground.

But Gu Yuena's tail went rigid.

She lowered her head.

And fell silent.

But the next moment, Lin Yan could no longer hold on.

His head hurt too much.

The mushroom toxins surged through his blood vessels.

His consciousness felt as though an invisible hand had dragged it into the deep sea.

He did not even make it to the bed.

His body tilted, and he collapsed onto the floor unconscious.

Gu Yuena hung in the sky.

Her silver-white scales emitted a faint glow in the darkness.

It was far too faint.

Like a dying star.

Gritting her teeth, she squeezed and squeezed the divine power within her.

Only then did the light barely brighten a little, illuminating the outline of the land below.

"This beast... this beast..."

She cursed under her breath as she began to glow.

Silver-white light seeped out from between her scales, spilling over the world below as it sank into eternal night.

But a voice in her heart whispered: He was right.

If she had not willfully used the power of fate and scattered his authority of creation, they would not be in this predicament.

And besides...

Gu Yuena glanced at the figure collapsed on the floor of the room, uneasiness rising in her heart.

That guy had eaten quite a lot of mushrooms just now.

His face was deathly pale, and his lips had turned blue.

He would not sleep and never wake up, would he?

Could he really croak just like that?

She gritted her teeth.

She diverted most of the light elements away from the human cities and poured them only toward the Star Dou Forest.

As for the humans?

They could freeze to death for all she cared.

Their creator did not even want to care about them anymore.

And she herself wished for nothing more than their deaths.

Then she settled her true body in place.

Disguising herself as a round moon floating in the sky.

Being hung up like that was too humiliating.

At the very least, she couldn't let her own subjects see the Silver Dragon King dangling in the sky like cured meat.

After settling her true body, her consciousness sank into the small world.

She flew toward the Star Dou Forest.

When she landed at the edge of the Star Dou Forest,

the entire dragon froze.