Everyone first returned from a pitch-black void to the dimension that contained only white, then from that white world back to the town that served as the Beyond Realm's avatar.
At that moment, the Exterminators were like zombies, each one sprawled over a fallen Beyonder and sucking fiercely. Though everyone knew they were extracting residual energy, it still gave them the feeling that a Biohazard Crisis had broken out.
The Beyond Realm felt different now. If it had previously been a bright, sunny place of spring warmth and blooming flowers, like the ideal upscale white neighborhood in the United States—
Then now it was lifeless, chaotic, and dilapidated, like a Black slum in the United States. Even the sunlight was gone.
Looking up, Su Ming discovered that the pure white clouds once covering the sky had vanished. Those clouds had previously emitted the light that illuminated the Beyond Realm, but now, without them, only countless stars in the black sky lit this place.
In other words, it had now entered an eternal night.
Not that it had much to do with Su Ming. He had only seized this place to use it as a control tool, an overpass that could open up the Unknown Realms. He had never intended to live here.
As the Sorcerer Supreme, of course he had to live on Earth. Across countless worlds, the prevailing worldview was geocentric—Earth was the center of the universe, because without Earth, there was no story.
The air carried a faint scorched smell. It was not too bad, but Su Ming still touched his Cosmic Cube and said:
"Give me some wind."
A breeze blew in, immediately making the several fires in town burn even more fiercely. At the same time, though, the wind brought dry desert air, making everyone feel