The night sky over the Origin Continent was vast and deep, glittering with countless stars.
Those countless stars varied in size, but every star actually represented an existence above a True God. They were their Miniature Universes.
But at that moment, Dongguan had no interest in admiring the brilliant starry sky, nor did he understand what it signified.
Instead, he gazed more at the boundless wasteland, his eyes vacant.
His Vertical Eye Between the Brows opened, and his domain spread as he sensed the outside world as thoroughly as possible. Yet all was desolate.
There were no signs of habitation here at all.
Looking into the distance, however, he could see a shadow shrouded in mist in one direction. Perhaps it was a mountain range, or perhaps a city.
At that moment, Dongguan's main consciousness was not in his Divine Body.
His viewpoint seemed to rise infinitely, looking down upon all things on the land, the workings of matter and energy, and even rules, as though he were looking down on a lower dimension from a higher one.
Of course, according to the information he had obtained, this was an illusion. It was merely like the difference between a microscopic view and a normal view: he observed everything in greater detail, while the range depended more on his own domain.
Dongguan withdrew this wide-ranging perception.
He had barely sensed any living beings throughout this area.
"Let's head in that direction first!" Dongguan took out his warship again and entered it.
The warship's surface blurred for an instant. Then it seemed to vanish, slipping into the void and traveling through it toward the shadow he had seen.
"This place is a little too big."
The warship sailed through the sky.
Inside the warship, Dongguan observed the land in every direction.
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