A light, filling the entire world.
My thoughts seed to have detached from my body, my self-awareness drifting in an empty, strange space, without any reliance in all directions, endless... When I slowly woke up, the first feeling was that I was floating in a boundless ocean of light, as if even my body had disintegrated.
But this feeling lasted less than a second. As my consciousness fully awoke, that sense of emptiness quickly faded. I controlled my body to make a fist, and in an instant, my body returned. I looked down to see my familiar hands, confirming that there didn’t seem to be any issues with ... Hmm, the only problem was feeling a bit "dull", indicating significant spiritual consumption.
Where is this place?
At this mont, I finally noticed that the surroundings were sowhat unusual. This was neither the command hall of the Imperial Admiral nor the vast outer space, nor the Endless Void, not even the last sight of that white light. There was nothing around, only an endless golden light gently undulating. There was no land underfoot, no sky above, no gravity or air was felt. Apart from the golden light, none of my other senses detected anything, giving a feeling of floating in outer space?
I moved my limbs slightly, confirming my body was fine, and then furrowed my brow, looking around for anything that could explain the situation, but there was nothing in sight except the boundless golden light. This light was bright but not dazzling, softly flowing around like water waves. With the naked eye, it was impossible to determine the extent of this light, nor its source, but it seed harmless, even giving a gentle and familiar feeling. I searched for a long ti but couldn’t find a shadow of the Imperial Admiral, then furrowed my brow, recalling what had happened earlier.
The last scene in mory was an exploding white light... Tracing back from this scene, the recent events gradually beca clear in my mind. Oh, right — Sandora and I were aboard the Imperial Admiral, packed with explosives and set to self-destruct, charging towards the Startup Terminal... At the final mont of battle, the New Army had achieved their goal. They successfully activated the Void Long Bridge and completely sealed it; the Imperial Army’s artillery couldn’t attack it. However, because the Void Long Bridge was not complete, Xingchen and Hila exploited a loophole...
The two void creatures rushed into the bridge’s entrance, causing significant damage, but their power couldn’t completely destroy it. The terminal even began to slowly recover, and then Sandora and I also rushed in...
Inside the terminal, there was only endless light, empty as predicted, with no functional facilities. But Xingchen and Hila confird that as long as this light received an energy shock from inside, it would weaken, so Sandora released her Glory Form, the Imperial Admiral began to self-destruct, and I fully unleashed the Void Power... Perhaps this attack succeeded, as the most vivid mory I had was of all the white light around abruptly contracting and then violently exploding.
But what happened after that? Why did I wake up in such a strange place? Where is Sandora?
"Sandora!" I knocked on my head, finally sorting out my sowhat ssy thoughts, and the first thing I did was call out to my companion. As for Xingchen and Hila... they should be fine, old and immortal... uh, I an, if a novice like is unhard, those older void creatures of unknown age certainly wouldn’t have a problem.
The call through the spiritual connection seed to sink into the sea, without any response. Not only did I not hear Sandora’s voice, but even connecting with the Imperial Main Network was troubleso, as if there was interference or the "distance" was too far... What’s going on?
The sudden incident caused a mont of tension, but after experiencing many storms over the years, I quickly cald myself, first pushing all the terrible thoughts out of my mind, and then carefully checked the spiritual network’s condition—starting with Sandora’s situation.
She didn’t respond to my call, but her spiritual reaction could still be found. This kind of spiritual imprint is basically impossible to block, roughly determining another’s condition. I found that Sandora was just temporarily in a dormant state, and in good condition, seemingly uninjured. But when confirming her position, there was a problem: the usual effective spiritual calibration thod failed this ti. When I attempted to locate Sandora’s current position, the result showed her all around... heaven knows why.
Confirming Sandora was fine and just temporarily asleep was a relief, and then I started trying to connect to the Imperial Data Network. Communication with the network was a bit difficult, as if there was so interfering layer between us, but it wasn’t completely unconnectable. In fact, a pure connection should still be normal; just the communication signal was being disturbed. I tried calling several tis, switching channels consecutively, and finally heard a fragnted voice: "...calling... repeated on... channel... calling Imperial Admiral... this is... Leaving World Garden... repeated calling..."
Practically too fragnted to understand, but at least the connection was made. I quickly responded: "Received, this is Chen Jun... By the way, why is the interference so strong?"
After a few seconds of delay, a reply ca back: "You there... interference... zzz... severe... not my concern."
I: "..." Just now, even if the interference was severe, I could tell it was Xiao Xue’s voice. Judging by her tone, she seed quite spirited, indicating nothing was amiss. I was instantly relieved and then refocused: "How is the situation?"
I repeated these four words several tis, fearing that strong interference would cause her to miss part of it. After a few seconds of delay, I received a reply from Xiao Xue, the spirited kid full of life, sending a heap of garbled text and noise...
Well, what she sent wasn’t supposed to be garbled text, but the interference was too severe. What I received from here really was a heap of garbled text.
After exchanging garbled ssages with Xiao Xue for a while, I discovered that this was indeed in vain. So, with a shared understanding (perhaps it’s the father-daughter bond), we managed to roughly explain the situation through many repeated, short codes. I finally confird our last attack with Sandora was successful: the startup terminal had disintegrated, and the fleeing New Army remnants were blown back into the void, completely annihilated by the Alliance Army warriors guarding outside the Peace Core.
The Alliance Army’s actions in other war zones had also ended. The final victory was ours, but the specific situation could only be understood once communications were fully restored, and I could return by then: the current interference was too strong, and not only was my location unclear, even Xiao Xue seed incapable of determining my position through the Leaving World Garden.
After bearing with the endless noise and garbled text, I left a ssage for Xiao Xue, indicating that everything was fine on my side, and then disconnected.
Having confird that everything at ho was fine, I should start considering my next steps... First is to find Sandora. Although she is confird to be safe, I can’t feel relieved until we et, and being together makes it easier to co up with a plan. Next is to confirm the final fate of the Imperial Admiral, though the ship likely turned to ashes...
The explosion of that white light happened too suddenly, leaving no ti to protect the ship’s mainfra.
Lastly, finding the whereabouts of Xingchen and Hila. It seems the terminal explosion threw us into this unknown place, and perhaps those two bickering friends were also blown away, but I’m not worried about their safety.
So first... getting out of this golden light cos first. Although it’s beautiful, only seeing golden light everywhere is monotonous, and after roughly scanning with spiritual power, this golden light does have a boundary.
I picked a direction and charged out at full speed.
Golden light halos quickly passed by , without temperature, touch, and not gas or anything else; they seed just to be pure light. As I moved forward, I tried to understand what this light was, but unfortunately, I was never a good researcher, and could only confirm it seed bright. But as I moved forward, so other structures seed to appear within the golden light: simple and thin light mist slowly gathered and condensed, so golden spheres appeared in the space around, drifting aimlessly like unconscious jellyfish. I swiftly flew past several golden spheres, and they chased after —but without threat, they seed "curious" and stopped chasing after a while.
The golden spheres were small at first, but grew larger as I proceeded, were they "juveniles" earlier?
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With so scattered thoughts spinning in my mind, I quickly flew across the ocean of light spheres. The golden halo in front of seed increasingly thin, implying I was nearing the end of this sea of light. Yet, I still couldn’t determine Sandora’s location... Could she have been blasted into another world?
"Whew... Finally got out." Although no one here could respond to my sigh, I still muttered to myself in the public channel as the golden light around retreated swiftly. In front of was a deep space filled with twinkling stars: I initially thought I’d landed in a bizarre world of light, but it turned out to be just an ordinary universe.
But just as I sighed, I suddenly discovered I could confirm Sandora’s location here!
The specific result is... Uh...
Sensing Sandora’s direction through our spiritual connection, I silently turned around to look at the brilliant golden ocean of light behind . In my mind, two flocks of mythical creatures galloped past in formation, reminding I hadn’t been clear-headed enough earlier. How could I not have thought of this before?
With a space transmission, I reached a sufficiently distant spot in space and silently observed the golden planet before : Yurasis Imperial Power.
No wonder when I tried to confirm Sandora’s coordinates several tis earlier, every result showed she was located in all directions... It was obvious, I was inside Yurasis Imperial Power just now! The golden rays weren’t anything else, but the star crown of Yurasis Imperial Power!
Alright, now Sandora’s location can finally be determined, and she doesn’t seem damaged (honestly, I have no idea how to ascertain whether a planet several thousand kiloters in diater has been injured), though she appears to have overexerted herself and is currently asleep. But there’s no need to worry: Glory Starship is connected to its owner’s soul, as long as the Glory Starship is intact, Sandora is fine.
But what on earth is this place?
Looking around, I could clearly determine this is just an ordinary universe, with stars flickering in space, star clouds emitting a faint light, without any chaotic energy in the surrounding space, and no signs of an abyss or world rift according to spiritual sensing. If my guess is correct, this place is far from the battle zone, and based on its richness and stability, it doesn’t seem like an Abyss Zone world. There’s no signal found here released by any Divine Race or Xyrin Creation, indicating it’s likely far from the Divine Realm and Imperial District. All in all, I seem to have landed in a godforsaken place—one with an odd interference, as if the entire universe is shrouded by so kind of shield.
Perhaps I should revert to Void and find Xingchen and Hila? Communication thods of Void creatures can’t be blocked, but when I tried it out... it seed temporarily infeasible.
The major explosion earlier left heavily depleted. Although I don’t feel anything abnormal now in conventional form, once I revert to Void form, I sense an accelerated evaporation of my body, a symptom of soul fatigue leading to diminished control over myself. Based on experience, this might take ten days to half a month to recover. Looks like the upcoming ti will be quite boring.
... The feeling of boredom arrived earlier than expected. After staring at Sandora for less than half an hour in space, I couldn’t help it anymore, thinking it might be better to try waking her up: "Sandora, can you wake up? At least chat with ."
The golden planetary body remained silent, quietly spewing magnificent flas in space. Sandora was truly peaceful in her sleep...
How should I awaken Sandora now? At ho, I know how to wake her, but now my wife has turned into a sphere several thousand kiloters in diater, making it rather tricky. I couldn’t even locate her ears...
After fumbling around for quite so ti without results, Sandora remained quietly spinning in space, seeming uninterested in awakening any ti soon. After orbiting her for over an hour, I finally decided to explore elsewhere.
If I were in top shape, I could perhaps try to pack Yurasis Imperial Power using Void Domain and drag it along a Void Route back to the Imperial District without much issue (the interference range is limited, moving away from this world should allow us to contact ho), but currently both Sandora and I need recovery, making resting peacefully for a few days advisable. And honestly... embodying a massive trailer, dragging along my wife who had beco a sphere seven to eight thousand kiloters in diater over mountains and rivers back ho, the entire process feels sowhat alarming... and prone to triggering Sandora’s awakening stress.
Beside Sandora, I placed so space gun towers and sensing stations I carried with (don’t ask why, these were prepared as "toys" for Pandora). Though theoretically nothing in this world could threaten Yurasis Imperial Power, I wouldn’t dare leave my wife adrift in space indiscriminately without any security facilities. After setting up several impromptu orbital fortresses circling Sandora, I casually picked a nearby gravity focus point to start my exploration of this universe.
Finding interesting things in the vast universe is truly difficult. Despite the apparently starry sky, 99.1% of space zones are, in reality, wide and desolate. Prepared to face lifeless outer space, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was my extraordinarily off-the-charts luck or sothing...
Just after transporting myself following a star trail to the nearest star system, I imdiately detected signs of life.
This location is two light years away from Yurasis Imperial Power, and that golden Glory Starship is completely out of sight—indeed, its light would take two years to reach here. In front of is a rather small star system, centered around a reddish-orange constant star, relatively large, but its surface temperature seems lower than the sun at the Capital World, possibly indicating this star is entering its decline phase.
Orbiting this star are three planets:
The first planet is extrely close to the sun. As I approached for a look, I found it gravity-locked without rotation; its sun-facing side had been lted by high temperatures, exhibiting a peculiar half-solid, half-liquid appearance. The molten half of the celestial body bulged towards the sun, a constant purgatory spewing substantial matter into the constant star. I suspect this planet might fall into its constant star within a few hundred years.
The position of the second planet is surprisingly "just right," neither too far nor too near the sun, maintaining stability on its orbit, its surface clearly showing signs of life.
The third planet, like the first, is a hopeless Life Forbidden Zone. Unlike the first, though, it’s too far away from the sun, even nearing the sun’s gravity boundary, coated entirely in solid helium with no patches of land. Attempts to probe beneath its solid helium shell using spiritual power revealed only a core sized comparably to two-thirds of the moon consisting of dense tallic core, nothing else—essentially a giant "ice ball."
These three planets distinctly separated, like showcasing the "hardship of life" with environnts of scorching hell, life zone, and freezing hell respectively. Though aware this is rely nature’s coincidence, I still let out a soft sigh.
Leaning closer to the second planet: there are signs of civilization here, seemingly with a high level of developnt.
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