Chen Shu was unlike Yan Keling, Young Master Xuanzhen, and Master Tongdeng: he had nothing to prepare. So over the next few days, he took a few young friends who likewise needed no preparation and wandered around the Planet.
The place was somewhat like a universe's Spacetime Node, but it was a product unique to this universe: the Plane Core. The difference was that if a universe had an awakened Spacetime Node, anyone entering or leaving had to pass through it. The Plane Core had no such ability. It merely provided a unique space that let Deities travel to and control the planes outside more easily, and made contact with Other Planes more convenient. Its functions were far less powerful than those of a Spacetime Node.
It was like a stripped-down transit station between planes.
This Planet was smaller than Earth outside. It was a barren little Planet without life, light, or warmth. Not a blade of grass grew on it.
Yet it bore traces of human habitation.
Chen Shu saw a deserted little house built entirely of stone. It had a distinctly Western Continent style, but no one knew how many years it had stood abandoned.
Chen Shu saw a sprawling complex of palaces where the Central Nation's God Emperors had lived through the ages. Traces of them remained everywhere.
Chen Shu saw a little courtyard. Its house looked much like those outside, with a fence and a yard full of grass and green plants. A flourishing jujube tree stood in the middle, and natural light shone everywhere, at all times. It looked as though someone truly lived there.
Only when he drew close did he discover—
The grass was fake, and so was the tree.
Who knew how much effort that Deity had spent creating the courtyard, all