The other party had appeared suddenly.
But he harbored no hostility, knew quite a lot, and could occasionally be of help.
So Xu Zimo allowed him to remain by his side.
In Xu Zimo's eyes, Chong Wu seemed to have emerged from some sealed land.
Along the way, he followed everyone with the mindset of a traveler.
At this moment, the Dead Star began to tremble.
Without the power of light as its foundation, the Dead Star had reached the moment when it should fall.
Every world had its reason for existing.
When a world could no longer sustain living beings, that world was no longer whole.
Yet such worlds could still continue to exist.
Like the Dead Star before, though incomplete, it could still exist within the universe.
That was because such a world was sustained by the power of its origin.
But once its origin power was devoured, it would completely sink and collapse.
Without question, light was the Dead Star's origin.
For that very reason, incomplete worlds like this were exceedingly dangerous.
To defend themselves, the Heavenly Dao of such worlds made their worlds extremely perilous.
They allowed no one to enter, leaving no possibility for anyone to seize their origin power.
Just like the Dead Star—upon entering it, one would be devoured by the light.
But after the light had been stripped away, this world no longer held any meaning for the universe.
It had reached the time when it should collapse.
To a certain extent, the consciousness of the universe resembled a world's Heavenly Dao.
But it was more tolerant, more vast.
Whether toward individuals or worlds, it would not handle matters in extreme ways, but would leave behind a sliver of hope.
Even an incomplete world would be granted the possibility of becoming whole.