Seeing Ye Buyu's utterly genuine expression, everyone seated around her fell silent for a moment. They exchanged looks, unable to find anything to say in rebuttal or doubt.
Perhaps, for the six of them, after all the turmoil and crises they had endured, this hard-won stability and peace was what mattered most, what was most worth cherishing.
Just then, Lou Guanshan abruptly planted one foot on his chair, threw out his chest, and shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Now, we no longer have to live on edge, worrying that we'll accidentally get dragged into high-level situations we can't handle.
"Because we now stand among the top ranks ourselves! Look around-aside from the universe itself exploding and being destroyed, what in this world could possibly stump us?"
Before Lou Guanshan had even finished his impassioned boasting, however, the other six members of Hold Up the Heavens had all turned to look at him.
The air fell terrifyingly silent.
When Lou Guanshan belatedly realized what the words he had blurted out actually meant, he froze for a good while before scratching his head awkwardly and slowly settling back into his chair.
It seemed... the most crucial, most troublesome problem was precisely the explosion and collapse the universe was about to face.
In fact, they had learned this long ago. The root cause of the constantly emerging calamities was the enormous energy released by the universe's continuous expansion.
Once the expansion of the universe's energy reached its limit, it would trigger a total explosion and collapse. That was the ultimate, unavoidable challenge.
The world was going to end. That was a problem already on the table.
Not hundreds of millions of years from now, nor hundreds of years from now. That possibility was right on their doorstep.
The Horizon Team had