Foreign Realm [2k]
Translator: CinderTL
"We survived! The disaster is over! We survived!"
"How could we have possibly survived a Starquake of this magnitude... unscathed!?"
"Thank goodness! It's so good to be alive! Only by surviving can we have everything!"
As the average energy level dropped to 8, everyone aboard the Golden Crow Battleship couldn't help but erupt in cheers.
Even Yu Jin, Su Fang, and Zuo Cheng, the Nine Tribulation True Monarchs, wore relieved smiles.
After exhaling a collective sigh of relief, everyone's gaze naturally turned to Li Chunjun.
"Sword Prodigy Li, thank you!"
"Sword Prodigy Li, I apologize. If not for you, all of us would likely have perished during this disaster, twisted and torn apart by the spatial storm the moment the Dao Resonance Barrier collapsed."
Several True Monarchs spoke in turn.
Li Chunjun waved his hand. "I was just trying to save myself too."
His gaze turned outward, beyond the Golden Crow Battleship.
With its energy support drastically diminished and depleted, the Void Storm was rapidly dissipating.
In mere moments, the average energy level had already fallen to 7.
The spatial distortion visible to the naked eye outside had also become less pronounced.
As the average energy level dropped to Level 6, then Level 5, and quickly plummeted below Level 4, people could even make out the starry sky beyond.
"Has the Cosmic Quake passed? Check for aftershocks!" Li Chunjun immediately instructed Yu Jin.
In fact, his order was unnecessary. The guards around Yu Jin had already begun operating the Golden Crow Battleship.
Soon, they had the data: "After the massive energy release just now, this region of space has stabilized. Aftershocks... there will definitely be some, but their intensity will never reach the Level 20 magnitude of the previous quake, which was nearly Dao Unification Realm-level energy release!"
He immediately added, "Moreover, there's usually a time gap between the main shock of a Cosmic Quake and its aftershocks, ranging from several months to several years or even a decade or more."
"At least several months, then," Li Chunjun said, immediately adding, "Let's go out and take a look."
The True Monarchs naturally didn't object.
The Golden Crow Battleship gradually separated from Blue Star.
As soon as the Golden Crow Battleship broke free from the Blue Star Dao Resonance Barrier, it let out another pained cry.
It couldn't even take off.
"Master Yu Jin, the Golden Crow Battleship has suffered severe damage! We must repair it immediately!" a technician reported urgently.
The reason they had managed to withstand the spatial storm's impact was partly due to the Azure Star Minor Realm's Dao Resonance Barrier, but the Golden Crow Battleship had also played a crucial role.
"Spare no expense in repairing it!" Yu Jin ordered immediately.
The True Monarchs of the Guard Corps responded in unison and quickly got to work.
For now, they couldn't restart the warship. Instead, they flew out of the vessel.
Outside, the Azure Star Minor Realm's Dao Resonance Barrier hadn't been completely shattered, so the impact, though significant, wasn't catastrophic. At most, it was like enduring an intense solar storm.
While ordinary people might have suffered heavy losses, Cultivators, unless exceptionally unlucky, could still emerge unscathed.
The group's true focus was beyond the Azure Star Minor Realm.
At that moment, over a dozen Primordial Spirit True Monarchs soared into the sky.
Once they crossed the atmosphere and reached space, they gazed out at the cosmos, which had never seemed so vast.
The stars that once filled their vision had become incredibly sparse.
Fewer than three hundred could be identified with certainty.
"It's destroyed," True Monarch Huang Tian said, his heart heavy. "All the stars have been annihilated. The Azure Sea Domain... is completely finished after this Cosmic Quake."
"Or perhaps we're no longer in the Azure Sea Domain," Su Fang suggested. "Even earthquakes can shift mountains and rivers. What about a Cosmic Quake? The space around us has been warped by spatial forces, and we've been flung who knows where. That's why the sky before us looks completely unfamiliar."
"First, let's figure out where we are," Zuo Cheng said. "Aftershocks are still possible. We need to leave as soon as possible."
True Monarch Huang Tian, standing nearby, quickly asked, "You two have been stationed in the Azure Sea Domain. You should be very familiar with this Realm Region. Can't you recognize this sky?"
"Leaving aside whether the Azure Sea Domain even still exists, even if it does, the shifting of stars means the constellations have certainly changed," Zuo Cheng replied.
Zuo Cheng spoke, a crystal ball-like instrument appearing in his hand. Countless starlight twinkled within.
Besides the starlight, a vast net of light spread out.
Everyone recognized it as the Great Dao Network of the Profound Yellow Great World.
The net of light and the starry sky flickered incessantly.
After a long moment, Zuo Cheng finally said, "It doesn't match."
He looked at the sparse hundred or so stars above them. "This isn't any starry sky we know. Moreover... this starry sky has very few planets. It looks like it suffered a disaster. All the other planets have been destroyed, leaving only about a hundred stars remaining."
"If the Great Dao Network doesn't match..."
Yu Jin's heart sank. "I fear we're no longer in the Profound Yellow Great World. This high-intensity Starquake has shattered the spatial dimensions, causing us to fall into another starry sky."
"Shattered the spatial dimensions!?"
Li Chunjun understood Yu Jin's meaning.
It was like overlapping two sheets of paper and punching a hole through them. This allowed one to easily traverse the vast distance between the two sheets.
The previous Cosmic Quake had undoubtedly produced a similar effect.
The destruction of spatial dimensions had caused them to fall from one starry sky into another.
"Is this one of the Great Worlds recorded in the Immortal Alliance or Human Race star charts?"
Zuo Cheng looked at Su Fang.
"I don't know," Su Fang replied, shaking his head. "Aside from the truly high-ranking figures, who has access to a complete star chart?"
If you consider the entire Cosmos as a single planet, each race is like a nation.
Primordial Spirits aren't even considered high-ranking within the Human Race. How could they possibly have precise knowledge of every geographical feature?
"In that case, we have two options: either repair the Golden Crow Battleship as quickly as possible, or try to contact other Lesser Thousand Worlds and see if we can obtain useful clues from them," Zuo Cheng said. "Regardless, we need to leave this area as soon as possible to avoid the aftershocks, which could strike at any moment."
"These two approaches are actually one and the same," Su Fang pointed out. "The nearest of those hundred Lesser Worlds is still several days away by Void Warship. If we were relying on Fifth-Tier Flying Boats, two or three months would be considered fast."
"We also need to be mindful of safety," Yu Jin added, gradually regaining his composure. He gazed solemnly at the stars in the Heavenly Vault. "This region of space has clearly been affected by a Starquake, yet these Lesser Worlds have survived. This suggests they are far from weak!"
The other Primordial Spirit True Monarchs' expressions immediately turned grim as they recalled the arduous struggle against the Starquake.
"It's possible their Lesser Thousand World is of a higher grade, a top-tier Lesser World," True Monarch Huang Tian said. "The higher the grade, the more Dao Rhythm accumulates, resulting in a stronger Dao Resonance Barrier."
"Top-tier Lesser Thousand World," Li Chunjun murmured, recalling what Jiang Wanyu had told him about the Lesser Thousand World grading system.
Ordinary Lesser Thousand Worlds rarely attracted Primordial Spirit or Nascent Soul cultivators. Superior Lesser Thousand Worlds would have Primordial Spirit True Monarchs stationed within. But a top-tier Lesser Thousand World...
That meant it must have at least a dozen Primordial Spirit True Monarchs.
In any case, only the elite had survived. Otherwise, they would have long been annihilated by the Starquake.
The Primordial Spirit True Monarchs soon returned to Blue Star. However, Su Fang ordered a team of True Monarchs to remain behind, patrolling outer space.
At this point, they had no idea where they were, nor whether they were still within Human Territory. Without a patrol to watch the void, they might not even react in time to a sudden attack.
Necessary precautions were essential.
As the group entered Blue Star, a Primordial Spirit True Monarch quickly approached to report.
After listening to the report, Yu Jin gave a precise answer: "We've mapped the Dao Rhythm distribution. This area belongs to a Great Dao Network completely different from the one in the Profound Yellow Great World... We're no longer in the Profound Yellow Great World. Furthermore, this Great Dao Network's distribution... isn't recorded in any of the Great Worlds within the Human Territory."
"We're... no longer in the Human Territory!?"
The Primordial Spirit True Monarchs' expressions immediately changed.
Even though they had suspected this upon seeing the completely unfamiliar starry sky, the confirmation still sent a wave of unease through their hearts.
The Cosmos was vast!
Even the Human Race dared not claim to have fully grasped its entirety.
Much of the space beyond the Human Territory remained uncharted territory to them.
What races might exist there? What dangers might lurk? No one knew.
"We might not be in the Human Territory, but we shouldn't have strayed too far. Perhaps we fell from the Profound Yellow Great World into a nearby, unknown star region. Could it be the Great World of the Gods, controlled by the Divine Race? We might find out if we can locate a local power and inquire."
As Yu Jin spoke, he frowned slightly. "That's strange. According to the Golden Crow Battleship's readings, our current location shows a high density of Dao Resonance Disturbance..."
"Dao Resonance Disturbance? Does that mean there's a cultivation civilization here?"
True Monarch Huang Tian was taken aback. "Then why is the outside so desolate?"
"The technicians offered two explanations," Yu Jin said. "One is that the Lesser Thousand World was destroyed in this Starquake or fell into another dimension. The other possibility..." He glanced around. "That clan doesn't rely on the Lesser Thousand World's environment and can survive directly in the Cosmos."
"The former is highly probable. We didn't sense any life forms when we went outside just now," Zuo Cheng commented.
Yu Jin nodded. "In any case, everyone, steel yourselves and maintain full alert."
The other True Monarchs agreed.
At that moment, Chang Feng spoke up. "The Azure Star Minor Realm has been preserved under our full protection. However, the external environment has changed drastically, especially due to the lack of stellar radiation. The environment will quickly deteriorate. If we don't intervene, the mortals on that planet... will likely perish completely."
His words drew the gazes of many toward Li Chunjun.
The life and death of mortals held little significance to these Primordial Spirit True Monarchs.
When faced with cosmic disasters like the Cosmic Quake, even surviving was a stroke of divine fortune for them.
But this was, after all, Sword Prodigy Li's homeland...
If he wished to rescue these mortals, they wouldn't hesitate to contribute their strength.
After all, without Li Chunjun's timely intervention with that key-like supreme treasure, they might all have perished in the spatial turbulence caused by the Cosmic Quake.
"Save them!" Li Chunjun declared.
He glanced at the others. "I've always believed that every life deserves respect."
Yu Jin, Zuo Cheng, Su Fang, and the others nodded in agreement. "We understand."
"If Sword Prodigy Li says to save them, then we must."
"The external environment will change drastically, but we can simulate a livable environment by setting up Fifth-Rank Formations. A Fifth-Rank Formation can easily cover several hundred miles."
"We need to act quickly. Let's have the local Immortal Sects assist with the population transfer. Concentrate the people and establish city shelters based on these Array Formations."
(End of the Chapter)
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