Within the Cosmic Starry Sky.
Lin Ze stepped out of a space-time rift, his black robe drifting soundlessly in the silence of the cosmos.
He turned around and took one last look at the two staggered planets behind him-the Outer World and the Inner World, one of cybernetic steel, the other of nature and technology.
Lin Ze withdrew his gaze and turned toward the last direction.
There lay the final pair of planets along the Shinobi World's planetary orbit, staggered vertically and overlapping.
Lin Ze took a deep breath. The star patterns in his Rinnegan slowly revolved as he began activating the power of the Xūmí Starry Sky Seal.
Hum-
A rift tore open in the void before him. Lin Ze stepped inside, his figure instantly vanishing into the vast starry expanse.
At the other end of the space-time rift.
The moment Lin Ze stepped out of the void, the sight before him made him frown slightly.
This was the void outside the final pair of planets. Before Lin Ze's eyes, two planets floated one above the other, similar in size to the Shinobi World but utterly different in appearance-
There were no azure seas, no verdant continents, no forests of steel, nor any neon light pollution.
There was only gray, deathly desolation.
The planets' surfaces were covered in countless cracks, as though something had torn them open from within. In some places, the fissures stretched dozens of kilometers wide, their depths unfathomable, exposing gray-white layers of rock beneath.
There was no atmosphere, no cloud cover, and no artificial structures.
Even meteorite craters were scarce.
It was as though nothing had ever visited these two planets since the moment of their birth.
"..."
Lin Ze narrowed his eyes and extended his senses.
A moment later, his frown deepened.
There