Chapter 1 The Strange Development

Hao Ren didn't know if he was born with a buff or if it was the world's problem, but the guys he knew always developed in a bizarre way. The gloomy and terrifying underground cave full of indescribable atmosphere had become a sanctuary of life in just two days, and the majestic Yggdrasil, the World Tree, had somehow turned into Yggdrasil: Black and White. Although he knew that this Black and White was just to cater to everyone's aesthetics and was just an empty shell, he still felt quite strange...

Come to think of it, this tendency of stylistic inconsistency seemed to have started after he met that raven 12345. Ever since he met that neurotic goddess with brain problems, the world in Hao Ren's eyes had been sprinting madly in the direction of neurosis... As expected of a goddess, one person skewed the style of the entire universe.

After sighing, he had to return to the main topic. Hao Ren looked down at Little Black, who was crawling on the ground muttering "Let me suck on it again." He felt that this original Yggdrasil was probably useless for the time being, so he turned to look at Little White, who seemed more reliable: "The new residence I arranged for you is a place called the Rift Nebula. You should already know about it—can your body withstand this long-distance migration?"

"Mother bestowed this body upon us, allowing us to even cross the barrier between two worlds," Little White smiled slightly and floated to the guiding star compass. "She has already calculated the various problems we will encounter in other worlds. Yggdrasil fears no challenge."

The guiding star compass was injected with energy, and the energy sphere floating in the air emitted a colorful light. The pool below the star compass became sparkling, and then a wisp of red emerged from around the pool. The pool reflected the brilliant scene of the cosmic starry sky.

In the next instant, the suspended sphere of the guiding star compass suddenly expanded. It transformed into a virtual image and instantly covered the entire hall. Countless stars and celestial bodies floated around everyone, giving the feeling of being directly in outer space!

"Wow—" Lily immediately wagged her tail excitedly and exclaimed, "Landlord, landlord! This seems prettier than the navigation system on the Tortoise Rock!"

Hao Ren was also startled by this thing. He curiously looked at the celestial images floating around him, knowing that this was a special star chart: "...A navigator? I thought you 'First Borns' didn't need tools. This thing looks more like some kind of technological device."

"We really don't need tools," Little White shook her head. "Yggdrasil floats around on its own when moving in the universe. This temple and the navigation star compass here are prepared for you. It projects the images in the minds of Little Black and me to make it easier for you to understand and guide the course, but for us, navigating in the universe doesn't require any navigation star compass."

"It's much more convenient with this. I was worried about how to translate our star chart to you at first," Hao Ren nodded reassuringly and took out the data terminal. "Compare it with the navigation route."

The data terminal immediately compared the surrounding star chart with the official navigation chart in its memory bank: "Um... Yggdrasil's perception range of deep-space celestial bodies is limited. The Rift Nebula is not on this star chart. Let's move in this direction first, and then we'll correct the direction."

In the vast space, the dying Chandar star was emitting its last bit of light and heat. Due to Yggdrasil's continuous extraction, the rate of decline of this star was faster than before. Now it had almost become a dark celestial body, with only some dark red spots flickering from time to time near the equator.

Next to the Chandar star, Yggdrasil was gradually closing the energy passages it had created one by one.

One after another, the space cracks slowly closed, and the scenery of Asgard gradually disappeared from the universe. The light streams connecting the star and the alien space cracks also became dimmer and dimmer. After more than ten minutes, the last light stream disappeared into space.

The starlight near the Chandar star suddenly twisted. The Yggdrasil space chain completely disappeared from this space.

On that day, all the planets and space stations in the entire Chandar civilization circle that had the ability to monitor space channels received a message that resounded throughout the universe. This message became an unsolved mystery for the monitors to discuss privately for a long time. Its content was this:

"Let me suck on it again!"

Yggdrasil's migration took a full seven days.

Although he (she? it?) had greatly recovered his vitality and the speed of hyperspace jumping was much faster than before in the chaotic state, the Rift Nebula was located in the depths of the universe after all. This long journey was still an arduous task for the First Born. After seven consecutive days of hyperspace jumping, the Rift Nebula finally appeared in Yggdrasil's induction. Before that, the entire alien space chain had trekked for more than a million light-years in the desolate deep space.

"I feel like I've digested everything I ate before..." Little Black lay half-dead next to the guiding star compass's pool, looking like she was about to jump into the lake to commit suicide. "No, I have to eat something..."

"There's plenty of 'food' here in the Rift Nebula," Hao Ren had fully communicated with "Black and White" during these days and had completely accepted Yggdrasil's new style. At this time, he just looked at Little Black numbly. "Except for a purgatory planet with people, the entire nebula is full of energy-rich and unexploitable interstellar clouds. Don't say suck on it once, even if you suck until you die, no one will stop you."

Little White floated to the guiding star compass. The scene that "she" saw was also projected into the magic pool of the guiding star compass, and the magnificent Rift Nebula appeared in front of everyone. This amazing "wound of the world" maintained a delicate dynamic balance in the spectacular material surges and energy storms as always. The ring-shaped cloud团 shone in the universe, and the dark rift in the center of the cloud group constantly annihilated and regenerated the matter and laws of the two worlds as if it were an endless abyss. Looking at this magnificent scene, Little White sighed softly: "The collision of two worlds... When Yggdrasil first came to this world ten thousand years ago, it once opened a similar rift, but that rift was small in scale and was smoothed out by the divine power left by Mother after only a short time."

Little Black raised her head from the pool and waved her hand carelessly: "This is a damn disaster. Look how big a hole you poked."

...It was estimated that the manic sequelae caused by the previous "corruption" to Yggdrasil would not be cured.

Under the guidance of the navigation beacon left by Hao Ren before, the group quickly found the location of the Purgatory Star.

This only ecological planet in the Rift Nebula was like an isolated island in the chaos, draped in a blue-green coat in the surrounding dim space background. The sun, 1.2 astronomical units away, released a great light, constantly nourishing this ancient planet that had just recovered from the cold winter. Hao Ren first connected the monitoring equipment left on the Purgatory Star, and various data were immediately transmitted to the data terminal.

"It seems that the development of this planet has been going smoothly since we left," Hao Ren flipped through the monitoring data that had just been transmitted. "The descendants of the Solar Dynasty have begun to settle in several new cities, and the various tribes have resumed contact..."

When Hao Ren left, the Purgatory Star was still a desolate and primitive place. After the Fiali Consortium's mining team removed the ferocious shell and heavy cloud top of the Purgatory Star, there were only endless vast grasslands and barren wilderness on the planet. Many tribes that had returned to the primitive nomadic era roamed the endless grasslands, and all the ancient cities had been reduced to ruins. Now that a year had passed, the appearance of the planet was far from earth-shattering, but many changes had taken place.

In order to control "Tokar," the First Born who coexisted with the Purgatory Star, Hao Ren built a huge neural pulse controller on the surface of the planet—the Soul Suppression City. Now this super-tech city had become the "holy land" of the planet's natives. Wandering tribes from all corners of the grassland gathered near the Soul Suppression City and built settlements around it, which were now taking the shape of a city. At the same time, the building units that Hao Ren left behind had also built small bases at other key ruins and monitoring points on the planet, and these small bases were also guarded and inhabited by local natives.

It was foreseeable that for a long time to come, "a circle of stone cities surrounding a high-tech alien base" would be a common sight on the Purgatory Star.

On the screen transmitted by the monitoring probes, you could see the natives building new homes, trying farming, and learning ancient texts.

Leading and educating these native tribes were the spirits of the ancient Solar Dynasty that Hao Ren brought out from the underground city "Dorasil." These ancient spirits were following the ancient oath and the new orders issued to them by Vivian, and were now doing their best to restore the civilization of this planet.

The Yggdrasil space chain slowly moved above the Purgatory Star. The Nine Realms occasionally revealed their figures in the narrow gaps between the main material plane and the alien space. Galazur looked down at the booming planet below and sighed leisurely, "So you can do more than just blow things up."

Hao Ren: "..."