At the edge of the Safe Zone, several kilometers from its defensive barrier, the boundless River surged endlessly onward.
Its waters churned with biting cold, raising waves as massive as mountains, as though they meant to freeze the stars.
Beneath the night sky, ripples on the surface shimmered with an eerie blue chill.
Stars hung low over the open plains, and night surged with the flowing River.
The vast, ink-blue natural barrier reflected the endless stars of the cosmos.
After leaving the Safe Zone, Qin Siyang, clad in the Crimson Armor, passed through dense forests and stopped at the River's edge.
He looked back. "I wonder where all these trees came from. How can they grow so thick without sunlight?"
While passing through the forest, Qin Siyang had casually uprooted dozens of trees of different species, planning to bring them back to the Safe Zone for Li Tianming and the others to study.
Along the way, he had also encountered several kinds of small gods he had never seen before. He killed them in passing and put them into his Storage Box.
Perhaps they carried materials the Safe Zone had never possessed, but judging solely by their combat abilities, the difficulty of hunting them, and the point values of their disc carapaces, they were utterly ordinary. They could not compare to a Blood Salamander, that paragon among small gods, or elite small gods such as Abyss Hounds.
At the very least, they definitely were not the "gifts" mentioned in the [Apocalypse Fragment].
On his journey out of the Safe Zone, aside from the unfamiliar scenery, Qin Siyang had encountered nothing else that caught his interest.
Now, Qin Siyang stood before the great River.
Waves rolled and cold gusts blew, rustling over Qin Siyang's Armor. Mist filled the air, blurring the