Two figures moved silently, one behind the other, through the cold, deathly still black void.
There were no landmarks around them, only shattered armor fragments occasionally drifting beneath their feet.
They had walked an unknown distance before "Karl's Creation Star Core," glowing a dim orange-red behind them, shrank to a speck of dust and finally vanished from sight.
Xu Tuantuan, whose rigid body had been forcibly controlled by an invisible power all this time, suddenly felt her throat loosen.
Her vocal cords and mouth, which had felt as though they were locked tight in raw iron, finally regained sensation.
She instinctively rubbed her aching jaw, drew a deep breath, and hurried close behind the man ahead, firing off questions in rapid succession:
"Are you really the Master of All Beings? What exactly did you bring me to this godforsaken place for?!"
"And what did those words that suddenly popped up in the system notification mean? Why do you insist on calling me Boundless Endless Heaven?"
"What exactly is Boundless Endless Heaven? Some special title, or someone's name?!"
Faced with the series of clear-voiced questions, tinged with fear and confusion, from the girl behind him,
"Master of All Beings · Zhong Chengsheng," walking directly ahead, never once turned to look at her.
His hands were tucked into the pockets of his snow-white robe, his posture straight. His leather shoes made rhythmic tapping sounds against the void, and his expression was as cold as an emotionless walking corpse.
He offered no explanation, not even bothering to spare her a single unnecessary word.
Time flowed silently through this deep space stripped of the cycle of sun and moon.
There was no telling how much time had passed.
Suddenly, a strange wave of heat rippled through the darkness ahead.
The moment "Master of All