After leaving the bar, Xu Ye and the others did not return to the Cruise Ship. Instead, they rented several apartments nearby.
Night fell, and despite it being late autumn, snowflakes began drifting over the sea.
The temperature plummeted.
Alice curled up beside the stove.
The Green-Headed Skeleton and the Hair Aberrant rolled around nearby.
After finishing his meditation, Xu Ye stood at the window, gazing at the beautiful scene before him, and felt a pang of emotion.
"Bandit Lord, what do you think this world will become in the end?"
The Bandit Lord replied lazily, "Its collapse is inevitable. The Heavenly Dao has become so chaotic that even I can't probe it anymore. It may look like there are more and more Awakened, but in reality, this world is collapsing at an alarming rate."
"A world like this is no longer fit for survival. In fact, with the Heavenly Dao in such chaos, becoming a god is no longer possible."
"Still, we have another twenty or thirty years. There's no rush. If we really run out of options, we can follow the Deities' wishes and open a passage to Earth."
Xu Ye paused.
Doing that would bring all these dangers to Earth.
That was his home.
He shook his head, casting aside those tangled thoughts, and focused on himself again.
"My fight with Shenchuan Shengshui exposed a lot of my problems. My current abilities aren't particularly suited to head-on combat."
"Fortunately, Vortex can make up for my lack of strength."
"But I also have quite a few Taboo Objects, and the Bandit Lord and Alice count as part of my fighting strength too."
Xu Ye took stock of himself.
"Still, fighting showed me that I can develop my Sequence Talents faster. For example..."
Crack!
Xu Ye snapped off one