Beyond the Three Divine Realms, tremors in the Sea of Stars were spreading toward every star domain.
Cracks kept widening across the surfaces of countless formerly dormant dead stars, and collapsing gravitational fields tore passing starships apart.
"Reverse course immediately! Withdraw from this region at full speed! Abnormal fluctuations detected in the external force field. Unknown factors are interfering with this area!"
Interstellar fleets on deep-space exploration missions, along with the various cosmic powers locked in fierce clashes among the stars.
Almost everyone sensed that heart-stopping, turbulent energy, which seemed capable of shaking the very foundations of the starry sky.
"What on earth happened? Could those legendary people who brought writing to the universe be doing something?"
"Gods? You mean those powerful gods?"
The energy tides of the gods' war surged along stellar orbits, staining even the halos of stars with uncanny colors wherever they passed.
Even the most remote, untamed star sectors could feel the unease emanating from deep within the Sea of Stars. Powers everywhere had set aside their existing disputes.
Civilizations capable of tracing its general direction watched the distant Sea of Stars anxiously, trying to track down the source of the upheaval.
The recently established Salvation Hall of Fame, with its extraordinary strength, also began searching for the source.
But no matter how they searched, they could not find where the upheaval originated.
It was as though... the beings responsible for all this were in a different dimension from them.
The oppressive sensation grew increasingly heavy. Many lower-level civilizations had already begun frantically raising their planet cores' protective shields to maximum output, huddling within their own star domains without daring to move, terrified that boundless energy would surge over and tear everything apart at any moment.
"Have you confirmed the direction?"
"Every frequency band on the