Under everyone's astonished gazes, the cracks on the Literary Star suddenly deepened, and a strange sound like the earth splitting seemed to ring in everyone's ears.
As the cracks continued to spread, streams of silver literary star light, thick as syrup, burst from deep within the fissures.
In an instant, the starlight fell straight down like water, bathing the Saint Origin Continent.
When the starlight reached the ground, a luminous mist spread everywhere.
Everyone desperately drew deep breaths, trying to absorb all the literary star mist into their bodies.
Across the lands of the Human Race, east, west, north, and south, countless scholars rose in literary rank.
Within a mere three breaths, several thousand Grand Academicians and dozens of Great Scholars emerged, and that number continued to climb.
Everyone felt their strength increasing rapidly, yet no one could feel happy.
The cracks on the Literary Star were growing larger and larger, leaving it teetering on the brink of collapse.
Crack...
Everyone seemed to hear an enormous splitting sound.
Then a huge fragment suddenly peeled away from the cracked surface of the Literary Star, trailing a long tail of flame as it flew toward some unknown destination.
Countless humans were seized by inexplicable terror, and many faces drained of color.
Was the Literary Star about to shatter?
An instant later, another enormous stellar fragment broke away. Then fragment after fragment left the Literary Star, flying in every direction.
Despair shrouded the Human Race.
Before long, a total of forty-nine stellar fragments had left the Literary Star, flying to various corners of the Myriad Worlds.
Yet the Human Race's despair actually began to fade.
The Literary Star had shattered, and forty-nine pieces had indeed fallen away, but after those forty-nine stellar fragments peeled off, a Literary Star less than half its original