"I'll let you out now." Bai Ze growled softly, then noticed something else and kindly added, "But your fragile ship will be damaged."
"Haha, that's all right. We still have a little Source of the World to protect the ship. Mr. Zhang, aren't you coming aboard?"
"You go out first. I'll come along in a bit!"
"All right, we'll wait outside for you!" Gangduo's voice audibly trembled. He was so anxious he was nearly going mad.
Soon, with the activation of Sanctuary, the great ship vanished from perception.
Having spent eighty-four years with them, Bai Ze naturally knew what this meant. Both the "Source of the World" and the "world" were quite unfamiliar existences to it.
It closed its eyes, chanting complex, profound Spirit Language: "Ga! Gu!"
As the sounds rang out, the stone monument blocking the exit suddenly burst into roaring green flames!
In that instant, the stone slab became incorporeal.
Unparalleled suction formed an enormous tidal vortex within the Abyss. In just three seconds, all the seawater within a kilometer was sucked dry!
The "little world" represented by that ship was naturally sucked out as well.
Driven by the difference in elevation, seawater surged in endlessly from every direction.
Zhang Ming was tossed about by the current. Only by grabbing Bai Ze's old bones could he steady himself amid the waves hundreds of meters high.
Immediately afterward, the stone monument solidified, blocking the Abyss's exit once more.
"They should be gone now." Bai Ze seemed somewhat exhausted. It glanced at the gourd floating beside Zhang Ming and said quietly, "Put me in there... I'll help you watch that thing... Unless I die, it won't succeed."
"All right."
[I have no interest whatsoever in the Space-Time Worm or the World Tree,] the gourd said faintly as it floated nearby.