Above The Sky

Chapter 2153 - 60: The Primordial Stillness (Middle 5)

[The End]Ian whispered: [The end that all things can reach—I have reached the second Dao, the universe of heat and nihility, the home of Glorious Light and the Void]

"Then why did you come back? You could have directly transcended the end and ascended!"

[Panloss, you ask this question because you don’t understand me. I want to go further, not to an end that has been thoroughly explored, where nothing remains but Glorious Light]

Ian calmly raised his head, reaching out with one hand, through space-time, directly to the New Moon—where a house-sized ’Cradle’ prepared long ago by the Duke of Steep Ridge was dragged by Ian, arriving before the Deep Space Shuttler.

[I want to head to the farthest reaches—and there’s no end to the farthest reaches]

Radiant light and pure An, the Cradle absorbs all light, all energy with its pitch-blackness. It is placed at the center of the Deep Space Shuttler, and the large umbrella-like structure encloses it, protecting the Cradle in the center, like a closed bud.

The black Star Vault reappears, space-time sways at the peak of the Firmament, with nearly infinite energy pushing, the Avogadro Deep Space Shuttle truly starts for the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, space surges violently like tides, and it is aimed at...

The blackness beyond, where there is not a single star.

[All stars are sealed by the Cradle, or are devoured by The End. Panloss, do you think I want to explore other stars? Wrong, I want to explore precisely the pitch-black void, whether it is destruction or nihility, I will find the answer]

Ian whispered, and he laughed: [Launch it]

So, space-time bends, tears, around the black starry curtain, ripple-like spatial patterns vanish suddenly like encountering a cliff, meeting a deep abyss, causing the whole of Terra to seem to tremble slightly.

Then, starting from Terra, a space-time surface over 92 trillion kilometers long appeared for a moment and then disappeared.

The Cradle.

The Galewind Dragon King, who had already built a giant observation base around the Cradle, saw it; as a ripple surged, something had pierced through the Cradle, arriving outside the Cradle.

Outside the Cradle.

The End slightly rippled for a moment; this teleportation occurring in ’instant’ was crystal clear to it; it even attempted to capture that Aether with nearly zero events in the ’teleportation’ halfway—but it did not find the Cradle Satellite enveloped in Ether Space-Time.

Nearly ten light-years away, cosmic vacuum.

The micro-Cradle slowly dissipated; Ian had fixed its existence time, so it would automatically disappear once outside the Cradle. Wrapped within, a flowing light emerged, then coalesced into a white-haired human form.

He opened his eyes, blue light gazing into the distance.

A part of Ian reached outside the Cradle.

For the first time, so far away.

"Hmm. Aether is diffusing, if not deliberately driven, it spreads at the speed of light."

After unlocking the micro-Cradle, Ian knew that his existent excess Aether would diffuse, possibly attracting The End’s proximity—but if it’s diffusing at light speed, it would take five years for it to sense his existence.

Of course, The End certainly has a super-dimensional perception system, so it could come over at any time too—so time needs to be seized.

So, at this moment, in the void of darkness, in the silent, unspeaking universe, Ian surveyed the entire universe space-time.

Not a single star.

The entire universe, only silence, not the slightest starlight, everything is pitch black.

All stars have dimmed, not even a trace of light exists.

Nearly hopeless tranquility.

However, Ian did not feel discouraged or regretful.

He had long guessed this possibility because before Terra’s civilization walked out of the Stone Age, the stars in the sky had already begun to gradually dim; when Terra started building the Cradle, it is likely that starlight had already been completely devoured.

The entire Aether Universe, due to the War between the Star God and The End, stars were either turned into black holes, surrounded by blackness, or sealed by the Cradle.

The reason Terra can see stars is even thanks to the Calamity of Heavenly Fall and the Cradle itself—the space membrane of the wound recorded too distant starlight, releasing little by little so that even after the stars in ’The Outside’ were extinguished due to Transcend Time and Space warfare, it could still maintain a glow.

"But it’s a little too excessively dark, I remember even black holes glow, right."

Slightly shaking his head, Ian raised his head, looking towards the direction he ’came’ from, the blue light in his eyes spinning: "Now, let me observe the condition of Terra Cradle from ’The Outside’ well..."

Using the weak Aether emanating from the wound of Terra’s Cradle, Ian could directly use it to guide his observation perspective; if not, the light emitted there is also very obvious to him. However, what he sees now is the situation from five years ago.

And five years ago, that was just about the time he became the Star God and yet renounced it—at that time, the Aether he spread had probably already extended to this place, so Ian could even ’see’ his process of advancing to the Star God, and the frequency of Aether fluctuation.

Ian simultaneously deployed ’Super-dimensional Perception’ and ’Normal Aether Perception,’ simultaneously sensing the ’present view of Terra Cradle’ and the ’five-year-ago view of Terra Cradle.’