In the depths of the Soul Wilderness, the gray sky was covered with a thick layer of flowing, invisible clouds. The tall and solemn church towers and walls stood on the wild grassland, and the magnificent and mysterious Crystal Giant Tree had now completely enveloped the cathedral, stretching like a crystalline do from the courtyard area to the open space above the church surroundings.
From a distance, the Inference Star Body Crystal Tree and the grand church building seed to be rging into one. Nurous crystal structures hung down from the tree crown, growing along the outer walls of the building or simply replacing parts of the building's roofs and beams, giving the impression that the church and the giant tree were growing from each other's bodies in so places.
Yu Sheng knew that on one hand, the Crystal Tree was actively adapting to its growth environnt, and on the other hand, it was the result of Luna's intentional guidance. In this wilderness dominated by Soul Power, she and her Knight Order could adjust the cathedral at any ti. After the Crystal Tree grew rapidly, she redesigned the entire courtyard area and the rear wing of the church. The first reason was to leave enough growth space for the Crystal Tree, and the second was because—she thought it looked very cool.
Yu Sheng had to admit, in terms of architectural design and aesthetics, the Holy Lady was indeed a notch higher than himself…
"Since you left last ti, the tree crown has expanded by nearly a quarter, and the support structure hanging from the tree crown has increased by about thirty percent," the blonde young female Knight next to the massive crystalline trunk in the courtyard area was introducing to Yu Sheng the changes in the Crystal Tree during this period, "but the biggest change is still those 'fissures' on it. They've obviously beco more stable than before, and so of them have even ford stable 'silk' structures with nearby branches… Look over there."
Following Luna's pointing direction, Yu Sheng saw a "light stream" exuding mysterious starlight. It was like a small river, andering out from the branches of the Crystal Giant Tree, its edges shimring with a semi-transparent vague texture. Although the main body floated in mid-air, many faint light filants extended around it, connecting like so kind of nutrient delivery structures to the nearest crystal branches.
The integration of the World Bridge and the Inference Star Body seed very smooth. It seed it wouldn't be long before those temporal fissures could grow to a point where they could support a "passage." By then, how would this giant tree look?
Yu Sheng was quite curious about this. In fact, even now, he hadn't figured out what this "World Bridge" could be used for. Initially, he "swallowed" it simply because it seed a sha to let such a spectacular creation, built at great angelic power expense, collapse. It felt like a waste not to take it back…
After all, everyone knew his habit: if he didn't pick it up, it was as good as lost, especially since it had already been eaten, useful or not—it's better to let Hu Li polish her claws on it later.
Of course, Yu Sheng now had a new reason to focus on this thing—the Hidden Monastery cultists seed to want to use "World Bridge technology" to do sothing, so it was hard to bla him for showing those cultists what a truly grand troublemaker was.
Slightly narrowing his eyes, Yu Sheng's mind slowly cald as he synchronized with the Crystal Giant Tree through the link established by his blood.
He began to observe and understand the "fruits" growing on the giant tree, extracting knowledge from those rivers filled with faint light. He tried to extract the temporal order contained within the fissures and write them into the next door he wanted to open.
Then he stepped forward, placed his hand on the trunk of the Crystal Giant Tree, and slowly raised his hand, as if grasping so invisible object, pulling it out bit by bit from the trunk.
Luna stood by, her eyes wide open, watching the unbelievable scene unfold in front of her.
She saw a strand of… seemingly living stream of light suddenly appear in Yu Sheng's hand. This stream of light resembled the "fissures" on the Inference Star Body giant tree, but it exhibited an extrely unstable and turbulent state, with the light appearing as if several virtual images were overlapping at any mont and continually collapsing and reorganizing internally.
Although Luna didn't understand the principle behind Yu Sheng's array of mysterious abilities, it didn't prevent her from feeling an extre sense of danger the mont she laid eyes on it.
"What's… this?" the Holy Lady asked, keeping a safe distance from the "living fissure," her eyes wide open with astonishnt.
Yu Sheng turned his head, grinning: "Pre-fabricated World Bridge."
Luna was dumbfounded: "This can be pre-fabricated!?"
"No," Yu Sheng admitted frankly, "at least not at this stage—the World Bridge isn't 'mature' yet, even the fissures on the tree are still growing, let alone the shadow I just extracted here."
Luna was a bit confused: "…Then, then what are you doing with this… thing?"
"Baili Qing has a plan. She wants to manufacture a batch of fake 'Angel Catalysts' to lure the Venerate Saints Monastery mbers entering the Boundary Land. We've already got the characteristic paraters of 'Zolda Black Stone' from Luo, but the Venerate Saints Monastery might have already gathered a lot of information related to the World Bridge. Simple fakes might not fool them," Yu Sheng explained patiently, not hiding anything.
Luna blinked: "Uh, I think I understand."
"This thing is unstable, but as long as you don't ss with it, it's fine," Yu Sheng said, bursting into a big smile. "I'll slip it into the fake, and when those Hidden Monastery folks shine their devices on it—oh my, this thing can indeed generate fissures. Now tell , is it real or not!"
When Luna heard this, she also burst into a bright smile, instantly sharing a mont of silent understanding with Yu Sheng, conspiring together, hand in glove, birds of a feather…
...
Dark teor Domain, sowhere in the dark starfield at the outskirts.
This is the border of this dim nebula.
The loosely structured, sparsely populated nebula doesn't have a clear "territorial division." It is filled with countless fragnted "territories," and the power division of each space is decided by the "ho star broadcasting stations" anchored beside large celestial bodies and their supporting defense facilities. In recent decades, this area's ownership has belonged to the Black Dot Group.
Barren, remote, and impoverished, besides occupying two rocky planets that barely produce so minerals, there are no other advantages. A weak sun illuminates the simple celestial system here, and the nearest transportation port is located light years away at the "Gray Dwarf Star." In this place, which can be called barren, a "Pioneer Laboratory" was once the only "brightness."
But now, even the Pioneer Laboratory has vanished, leaving only a few space factories plunged into chaos due to lost command, and mining facilities have stopped on the surface.
A twisted illusion suddenly appeared in space, as if sothing flipped and "squeezed" into this area instantly, but the next second, the distorted phantom vanished into the universe.
Under the stealth field, a small silver-gray shuttle is moving slowly in space, with Luo sitting in the cockpit, throwing up profusely.
Beside her was her loyal guard captain—also throwing up profusely.
"Bringing the shuttle through the 'gate' turned out to be so exciting," Luo finally managed to lift her head after retching for two minutes, looking weakly at the dashboard, "I should've asked the boss to open a big gate and just drive the shuttle through... Shouldn't have trusted his 'advanced technology'..."
The guard captain held onto the armrest, his face as purple as the Spirit Mushroom Luo once gobbled down: "It's said that this is technology from the Otherworld Inn, the entire craft can serve as a 'gate' for teleportation in the universe, you were eager to understand the principle before departure."
Luo waved her hand weakly, too exhausted to explain further, only feeling she had nothing left in her stomach to vomit, just dry-heaving a couple of tis had her spewing motor oil...
After suffering for another half minute, they finally recovered, the guard captain took a deep breath, his face gradually returned to normal, then cautiously glanced at the picture from the external monitor: "We shouldn't have been discovered, right?"
"Probably not," Luo continued checking the instrunts, "The stealth field is operating normally, all communications are silent, unless we are hopelessly unlucky and soone just happened to be watching that place during our teleportation, no one would notice a small shuttle's activity in the vast space."
The guard captain sighed in relief, then casually turned on the communicator next to his seat, calling to the passenger cabin at the back of the shuttle: "Guys, finished puking?"
The communicator buzzed twice, then ca a sowhat annoyed voice: "phit puked inside his mask, X..."
"X, the idiot, last ti on a mission to the shipyard he puked in his mask too," the guard captain couldn't help but curse, "Alright, leave him be, let him clean up himself, as long as others have no issue..."
Luo listened to the noise beside her, her expression gradually relaxed.
Originally, she intended to move alone, planning to return to the Dark teor Domain by herself to connect with a few informants she left behind, but on the day before departure, after returning to the valley intending to have a good rest and adjust her status for the night, Erin ca by and his words made her change her sowhat reckless idea— She couldn't rember the exact content of his speech, but what impressed her most was one sentence:
"...It's hard even to beat a first-grade second sester student..."
The words of the evil red-eyed dwarf were infuriating, but Luo was respectable for knowing her limitations and was very accepting of lessons—that thought was prompted by the experience of getting thrashed and tied up at ho and being taken to the Special Service Bureau. She eventually chose to bring a few helpers.
She didn't bring many; besides the guard captain, there were only four well-trained soldiers. In the words of the evil red-eyed dwarf, they could barely be at the level of "holding their ground against elentary graduates in 'Fairy Tales,'" but she felt it was enough.
She was not here to topple the entire Dark teor Domain, nor could she expect to move the entrenched warlords and cultists here with a few soldiers; bringing so guards was only to increase the margin for error and have a helping hand in the work.
Her real task was rely to extend the "boss's" power to this place.
Luo reached out and gently stroked the hidden compartnt next to the seat.
She seed to hear the blood crawling within those containers, with death and life hissing in the darkness.
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