Chapter 154: Chapter 154: Heaven’s Will
"Grandmother, it’s ti to be serious," Chu Xueyu stated, her voice low and dangerous.
The playful, almost frantic energy that had radiated from Shen Daiyu only monts ago vanished as if it had never existed.
It was a transition that was jarring even for soone of Haoran’s ntal fortitude.
The petite woman stood up straight, her posture shifting from a desperate, groping grandmother to a sovereign who had touched the true essence of the void.
Her eyes, which had been sparkling with mischief, now held the cold, ancient depth of a black hole.
Shen Daiyu t her granddaughter’s gaze, and for a split second, the air between them vibrated with a force that threatened to buckle the floating platforms.
"...Alright," Daiyu said, her voice dropping into a resonant, imperial tone. "I have sothing important to discuss with your son. The three of you... get out."
Chu Xueyu’s jaw tightened.
She opened her mouth to argue, her possessive instincts as a mother warring with her duty as a descendant.
But as she looked into the seriousness of Shen Daiyu’s eyes, the eyes of a Supre who had seen the rise and fall of eras, she felt a weight of authority that even she could not defy.
Reluctantly, she nodded.
She gave Haoran one deep, lingering look, a silent promise of protection, before turning around.
Just then, a set of ethereal double doors manifested from the blue sky and swung open.
Leng Shuang gave Haoran a short, aningful nod before turning around and walked towards the door and disappeared.
Feng Yuyan smiled and waved playfully, though her eyes were uncharacteristically focused, but she soon followed after her sister.
Chu Xueyu was the last to leave, her gaze fixed on him until the doors closed and vanished into the azure mist.
Once they were gone, the silence of the Supre Hall beca absolute as Haoran turned toward the woman who looked like a teenager but felt like a mountain.
"Great-Grandmother?"
Shen Daiyu chuckled, the sound echoing strangely in the vast space. "Just call
grandmother, lad. Though, I wouldn’t mind if you called
mother, or even sister. Age is just a number once you reach our level."
"Grandmother it is then," Haoran replied, his voice calm, his golden eyes observing her every movent.
Shen Daiyu shrugged, a casual gesture that belied the weight of her next words. "Tell , Haoran. Have you seen the map of the Central Region? Or perhaps the entire Tian Yuan Empire, and the Vast Wilderness that surrounds it?"
Haoran nodded. "I have studied them extensively. Although, I’ve noticed there are many variations to the maps of the Vast Wilderness. So show infinite mountain ranges, others show endless oceans of chaotic Qi. I don’t know which one is real, or if a ’real’ one even exists."
"That’s a good enough start. Co with ." Shen Daiyu snapped her fingers.
In a heartbeat, the blue sky, the floating castles, and the marble platforms were gone and Haoran found himself standing on nothingness, suspended in a boundless, dark void.
It was as if they had stepped outside the boundaries of the universe itself.
Below them, glowing with a light that was both beautiful and terrifying, lay the entirety of the Central Region.
The Central Region was a territory so infinitely large that the human mind struggled to categorize it.
It was divided into several sub-regions, each one the size of an entire universe, containing kingdoms the size of galaxies, mountain ranges that stretches for several star systems, demonic beasts the size of stars, and cities the size of planets.
In the innermost part of this tapestry lay the Imperial Capital—the heart of the Tian Yuan Empire.
It was separated from the rest of the Central Region by a vast "sea," but as Haoran looked closer, he realized it wasn’t water.
It was actually an infinite universe of its own, a swirling barrier of countless stars, nebulae, and galaxies that circled the Imperial Capital like a moat of fire, acting as a physical and spiritual barrier.
This is the first ti he have seen, or even know of it. After all, aside from hunting demonic cultivators, he almost never left the clan.
The maps also only refer to that place as "Sea of Stars
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