The next day.
At dawn, Chen Fan was still sound asleep when Chen Jiutian's voice from the Message Talisman woke him.
After hurriedly washing up, getting dressed, and coming to the shore,
he saw an utterly breathtaking sight.
More than a dozen space rifts hung over the waters of Jiangbei, and they were still expanding.
At a glance,
each space rift looked like a crack forcibly torn through Heaven and Earth itself. Inside was pitch-black, without a single speck of light, and all he could vaguely sense was a deep, unfathomable terror.
As though anyone who accidentally fell inside
would vanish forever.
"A word of warning."
"This is an ordinary Calamity often encountered in the World Battlefield: space rifts. They appear at random."
"If one appears within a continent, it tears apart whatever originally occupied that space."
"Mountains, buildings, rivers, cities, and so on."
"They cannot be resisted and are classified as random natural disasters."
"Space rifts are more likely to appear where space is unstable, as is the case in the World Battlefield. Outside the World Battlefield, the probability is much lower."
"Under normal circumstances, however,"
"although space rifts cannot be resisted, they generally cause little damage to a continent unless they happen to engulf its Continent Lord or important buildings. Even if a Continent Lord possesses a Jade Seal, their fate is unknown once they fall into a space rift."
"If they're lucky, they'll emerge somewhere else in Heaven and Earth, instantly crossing millions of kilometers."
"If they're unlucky, there's no telling."
"Generally speaking, however, space rifts appear individually, and ordinary rifts are usually only a few dozen meters long. Anything over a hundred meters is already considered a large space rift. Those exceeding a kilometer are superlarge and extremely rare."
"More than a dozen space rifts almost