Chapter 502 - 263: The Great Catastrophe Sweeping the Cosmos
’How is this possible? Did that earth-yellow planet follow me?!’
Wang Xiao’s pupils contracted sharply. A sense of extreme unease rose in his heart.
He was well aware of how powerful the earth-yellow planet was. It was a special existence, suspected of being conscious, with a Realm that surpassed a Tier Twelve Life.
Before, when he was in the Daoist Lord Realm, he had nearly been captured by that earth-yellow planet.
At the time, if he hadn’t had the Book of Space-Time, escape would have been impossible.
However, he never expected this earth-yellow planet to appear in the same starry sky as Earth.
’No, this doesn’t seem to be the same one I encountered in the Daoist Lord Realm. It just looks identical; the aura is different.’
Wang Xiao’s eyes shifted slightly.
He could sense that the aura of the earth-yellow planet in the Daoist Lord Realm was clearly much more profound.
This one before him, however, was comparatively immature.
The difference was like that between an adult and a newborn baby.
Still, the two were certainly related, perhaps even from the same source.
’For this type of earth-yellow planet to appear in two different starry skies, there must be a special reason.’
Wang Xiao gazed at the earth-yellow planet several light-years away.
After a moment of thought, he squeezed out a drop of blood and flicked it toward the planet.
BUZZ!
In an instant, the drop of blood transformed into Wang Xiao’s likeness and, in the blink of an eye, traversed several light-years to arrive above the earth-yellow planet.
The planet was slowly rotating in the starry sky at a specific, constant speed.
It showed no signs of breaking apart or expanding.
In fact, as long as one didn’t approach within ten light-years, it was impossible to even sense its existence with Divine Thought.
’I’d like to see just what kind of existence you are.’
A glint flashed in Wang Xiao’s eyes.
While it was impossible for his true body to enter the planet, he could use his Creation Divine Power to send a clone in.
With his current strength, even a clone was comparable to a powerful Tier Nine Life.
Even if the clone were captured by that giant hand, it wouldn’t matter; it would have no effect on his main body.
And if anything unusual happened, he could use the Book of Space-Time to hide in the Cultivation Land.
It was a foolproof plan.
The only thing to consider was whether the clone could transmit information back to his main body after being captured.
’Forget it. Since I’ve run into this earth-yellow planet twice now, I must find out what it is!’
Wang Xiao hesitated no longer. Divine Power surged within his clone as it plunged into the earth-yellow planet below.
In the next moment, the familiar sensation of weightlessness suddenly washed over him.
Instantly, Wang Xiao felt as if the Divine Power surrounding him no longer belonged to him.
An unimaginable force surged forth like a tidal wave.
HUMMM—
As ripples spread through Space, a giant, earth-yellow hand reached out from the Void and lunged for Wang Xiao!
’These two earth-yellow planets are definitely related. I’d like to see where this hand intends to take me.’
This time, Wang Xiao didn’t resist. He simply allowed the massive hand to grab him.
RUMBLE—
The earth-yellow hand, like a celestial canopy, instantly enveloped Wang Xiao’s clone.
In the next instant, Wang Xiao felt the scenery around him begin to change rapidly.
It was no longer the dust-laden, earth-yellow world but a series of vivid images.
Wang Xiao focused his gaze and saw that he was looking at vast expanses of starry skies.
These starry skies dotted the Cosmos like countless stars, stretching for an unknown number of light-years.
Each one emanated an incomparably powerful fluctuation.
At a certain moment, as the images continued to flow past, all the starry skies dimmed, turning a pale gray.
Then, Wang Xiao watched as all the starry skies began to collapse.
Afterward, the entire Cosmos started to fall into silence.
Only at some unknown edge did a strange beam of light appear.
Wang Xiao wanted to explore its mysteries, but his consciousness was torn apart by a powerful energy and vanished without a trace.
His main body trembled as he fully absorbed and processed the images his clone had seen.
’What was that? What I just saw wasn’t simply the Silent Extinction of a starry sky, but a cataclysm sweeping through the entire Cosmos?!’
Wang Xiao let out a long, heavy breath.
He knew that the time from a starry sky’s birth to its Silent Extinction was one Starry Sky Era.
And the time from the Cosmos’s birth to its Silent Extinction was one Cosmic Era.
For a Cosmic Era to end, all starry skies would need to undergo Silent Extinction during the same period!
The probability of that happening was almost infinitesimal.
One might pass through tens of billions of Starry Sky Eras without ever experiencing a single Cosmic Era’s end.
And yet—Wang Xiao had just clearly seen all the starry skies undergoing Silent Extinction at the same time.
This was clearly a sign of the end of a Cosmic Era!
In other words, this was a world-ending catastrophe that would engulf the entire Cosmos.
Not a single starry sky could escape!
A Silent Extinction of this scale... could even a Tier Twelve Life who had transcended the River of Time escape it?!
After all—even though a Tier Twelve Life had transcended the River of Time, they still existed within the Cosmos.
If the Cosmos perished, a Tier Twelve Life unable to transcend the scale of the Cosmos would likely perish along with it.
’Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. But why would the earth-yellow planet show me these images?’
’Were the images I just saw real or illusory?’
"If it’s real, then we’re in trouble. It means the end of the Cosmic Era is coming!"
Wang Xiao’s brow twitched as he fell into deep thought.
He was thinking, if a world-ending catastrophe that engulfed the entire Cosmos were truly coming, how could he escape?!
’When that time comes, perhaps the only chance of survival will be to hide in the Unobservable Cosmos...?!’