Chapter 1555: Snow?

Eternal Domain.

This massive domain floating in the air was like an invisible cruise ship, moving slowly above the void. At the very front of this ship, a figure in a black robe stood silently.

Lord Wuji slowly looked up, his gaze fixed on the five suns hanging above, wondering what he was thinking.

"Five suns... what kind of place is this?" A knight nearby also saw this anomaly and spoke in surprise.

"Even in the Gray World, there should only be one, right?"

"What does that mean? We aren't on Earth anymore?"

“……”

The group had just entered the Embers of Civilization and noticed the abnormal number of suns in the sky. What surprised them most was that no matter how far they traveled, those five suns seemed like stickers hanging far away in the void, impossible to approach.

Lord Wuji stared at the five suns for a long time before suddenly speaking:

"Those aren't suns... they are some kind of marker."

"A marker?"

"Not left by humans, but a marker left on the world itself... just like the rings on a tree, which are marks left by the tree to commemorate the passing years."

"So, these suns are like tree rings, a kind of counter?" The knight thought thoughtfully.

"Five suns... what could they be recording?"

Lord Wuji did not answer.

He turned his head silently to look in the direction of the Eternal Palace.

Lord Wuji could see the essence of those suns, so he could naturally guess what they meant... He was right; this place was indeed inextricably linked to the Twilight Society and Chen Ling.

"Lord Wuji, look! Is there a city ahead?"

A knight suddenly spoke up.

Everyone looked down and saw that on the desolate earth, black dots had indeed appeared. Because the Eternal Domain was at such a high altitude, they couldn't see clearly, but it appeared to be a scattered collection of broken walls and ruins.

Seeing this, Lord Wuji’s mind stirred, and he gradually steered the Eternal Domain to descend...

As the distance to the ground decreased, everyone could see clearly that it was the ruins of a modern city. Towering buildings, broken streets, and daily necessities scattered messily across the various ruins... These things were very new, making it feel as if people had been living here not long ago, yet looking around, there wasn't a shadow of a person to be seen.

It was as if the people who had originally lived in this city had been forcibly erased by some power.

"How could there be a human city deep in the Gray World??"

"Look, why are those two buildings crossed together? Were they built like that?"

"How is that possible..."

“……”

While the knights were astonished, a glimmer of doubt flashed in the depths of Lord Wuji’s eyes. He raised his hand gently and grabbed downward.

The next moment, hundreds of flowing giant steel claws, like alien tools from a sci-fi movie, extended from the bottom of the Eternal Domain, swarming down to grab at the city ruins below...

Creak—creak...

Streetlights, vehicles, road surfaces, walls, clothes, tables, and chairs... Countless things were locked by these steel claws, and as the metal structures retracted, they rose rapidly toward the sky.

At the same time, a void appeared at the bottom of the Eternal Domain, like a giant abyss mouth swallowing matter. Those steel claws kept throwing the city's matter into it, looking exactly like a floating monster with self-awareness, feeding on a human city.

Lord Wuji closed his eyes, as if carefully analyzing the material structure of the matter below, converting it into nutrients for the Eternal Palace...

After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes.

"This is not the world where Earth is located."

"The graveyard of the Gray World, the embers of civilization... He didn't lie to me."

Lord Wuji had completely deconstructed the materials of these ruins. Although these things looked no different from the old Earth on the surface, a very small portion of the materials were clearly not products of the world they were in.

This was another world, extremely similar to Earth.

The Eternal Domain moved very slowly. It took a full day from the moment it started approaching the Embers of Civilization to arriving at the edge of these city ruins. At this time, although the five suns in the sky seemed to still exist, they didn't seem to produce any sufficient light or heat.

The sky above the Eternal Domain gradually darkened, while the five suns in the distance remained high. Light and darkness coexisted at this moment, as if they were in an inexplicably fractured alien world.

Just then, a surprised voice sounded in Lord Wuji’s ear:

"Lord Wuji..."

"Is it starting to snow here?"

Lord Wuji looked up and saw flakes of snow that looked like ash falling from the high void. They were like shadows walking between light and darkness, silently and gently covering the earth.

He raised his hand in confusion and caught a snowflake in his palm. He examined the thing with his deep eyes, his brows narrowing slightly...

"This is..."

……

"Am I seeing things? Where has our Eternal Domain arrived? Why are there five suns in the sky??"

A man stood at his doorway, looking up at the five decorative suns above his head with a look as if he’d seen a ghost...

Not just him, other residents of the Eternal Domain also stood on the streets, pointing at the dim suns above and discussing something. The woman walked out of the house and grabbed his shoulder:

"Why are you joining in the fun? What if there’s danger outside? Get back inside and hide properly, don't run around!"

"Oh, what are you panicking for? With Lord Wuji here, what danger could there be?"

"Don't argue with me. I said go home and stay there! Look, Xiao Chen is staying home obediently. Can't you, as a father, be more steady?"

The man wanted to resist a bit, as it was rare to see the five-sun spectacle, but after seeing the woman glare at him, he chickened out... and helplessly followed her back into the house.

As the door closed, the woman still wasn't at ease. After locking it, she went to the door of her son, Tian Xiaochen.

Knock, knock, knock—

After knocking gently, she opened the door a crack...

Tian Xiaochen was sitting quietly at the table, with a half-finished game of Gomoku laid out. His gaze wasn't on the board, but was fixed earnestly out the window, as if he were daydreaming.

Seeing that her son was still staying in his room obediently, the woman was immediately relieved, but she still gave a word of advice:

"Xiao Chen, it’s dangerous outside. Stay home and don't run around, you hear?"

"Mm."

Tian Xiaochen responded without turning his head.

The woman closed the door and left, satisfied.

Tian Xiaochen watched out the window quietly. When the first snowflake, looking like ash, slowly drifted from the sky onto the windowsill, his gaze froze...

He took a deep breath and muttered to himself in the empty room:

"Lord Chen Ling, it’s snowing."