The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

The Starry Ark set off again, and this journey lasted for three years.

During the voyage, the number of worlds passed through increased, and the scenery became increasingly breathtaking.

These worlds vary in form, but without exception, their boundary membranes are pierced by a cold, dark gold energy pillar, as if connected by an invisible IV tube, and the origin of the world is being slowly and continuously drawn away.

The humanoid figure that was briefly glimpsed in the torrent of energy was captured several times during the subsequent journey, and judging from the outline, it did not seem to be the same person.

The dark gold pillar they initially discovered, after hundreds of leaps, actually connected to an eighth-level world at its other end.

However, this world is not the source either, and its consciousness has almost dissipated. Moreover, on the other side of its boundary membrane, another pillar of black gold light extends, pointing to the deeper reaches of the universe.

After several more years, and after countless leaps, the landscape ahead finally underwent a dramatic transformation.

Countless scattered, spiderweb-like beams of dark golden energy converge here, like rivers flowing into the sea, all heading towards the same destination—an incredibly vast dimensional world.

The origins of other worlds are being continuously channeled into this gigantic plane through these pillars of light.

The world consciousness of this world and the stability of its boundary membrane are the most powerful existence Moran has ever seen, without exception.

“A level thirteen world?” Moran murmured subconsciously, then immediately denied it, “No… I’m afraid it’s more than that.”

The maximum rank of spellcasters in a level thirteen world is eight, which is the highest rank discovered and recorded by the Valen explorers.

In such a world, magical civilization is highly developed, spellcasters are extremely powerful, internal problems are usually resolved on their own, and missions are rarely issued in the "Well of the Sky." The extinction of intelligent races and the endangerment of world consciousness are almost impossible.

For this reason, almost no explorers in Valen have actually entered a Level 13 world, and the Starry Sky Hall has almost no specific information about such worlds.

The world before us is clearly of a higher level than a level thirteen world. Even just by observing it through the light screen, one can feel the immense energy fluctuations contained within its boundary membrane. Its world consciousness is also incredibly powerful and complete, making it impossible to forcibly intrude.

Even the Starry Ark could not penetrate the boundary membrane to see what was inside.

Moran desperately wanted to figure out why the boundary membrane of this plane could take such a bizarre form, traversing endless void like tentacles, accurately capturing distant worlds and forcibly extracting their essence. However, faced with worlds with strong world consciousness and high boundary membrane strength, she was completely at a loss and could only turn her attention back to those worlds whose essence was being extracted.

These worlds are of different levels. Although their boundary membranes are still stable, most of their world consciousnesses have completely died out. Even those that remain are so weak that they are no different from endangered worlds. Entering them is not difficult at all.

“Turn around,” Moran said to Kaba, “and go back to the world we passed through not long ago.”

After two precise short-range jumps, the Starry Ark once again hovered in the void, quietly floating outside an eighth-level world.

The dark golden energy beam on the boundary membrane was extremely eye-catching.

Kaba turned his head, his soul fire flickering silently, awaiting the next instruction.

Moran stared at the control screen. The world consciousness of this level eight world was as still as a dead plane, except for the black gold pillar that had been connected, which emitted the world consciousness fluctuations from that giant plane.

For some reason, as soon as the thought of entering this realm to explore arose in her mind, looking at the dark golden pillar of light, Moran felt a strange palpitation and unease.

Her prophetic magic had reached the sixth level; even without actively casting it, the power of fate often gave her vague guidance, and intuition was the most direct form of warning. She did not ignore this unease and immediately cast a divination spell to predict the future.

"Big evil!"

The moment the result was presented, Moran was deeply shaken.

The divination of fortune and misfortune has not given such a dangerous prediction in a long time. This ominous sign means that upon entering this world, she is likely to encounter mortal danger.

Without the slightest hesitation, she immediately ordered Kaba to steer the Starry Ark away; nothing was more important than her life!
But Moran was also unwilling to leave this star system.

She took a deep breath, focused her mind, and used an even more powerful sixth-order precognition technique to try to divine the safest entry point for probing the black gold pillar.

The moment the magic took effect, a clear image flashed through her mind—a plane with an intact boundary membrane, a level close to three, also pierced by the black gold beam, and a world consciousness that was silent.

Moran recognized it almost instantly: "This is... the plane we first encountered?"

The clear guidance provided by the precognitive ability allowed her to make a decision instantly.

"Change course, target—the plane where we first discovered the black gold pillar."

Kaba faithfully carried out the command, the Soul Flame steadily pulsating, guiding the Star Ark into another long-distance jump.

The roots of the moss tree recorded the new course change in the travel log, and the squeaky noises quieted down.

I carefully recorded the safe jump route when I came, which made the return trip much easier.

In less than a tenth of the time it took to get there, the Starry Ark arrived at the Level 8 world, which was pierced through by the same black gold pillar of light as the original plane.

When Moran passed through this world again, he compared the dark gold pillar of light between the giant plane and this world with the dark gold pillar of light between this world and the original plane, and was surprised to find that although the world consciousness on the two pillars of light both came from the giant plane, their strengths were completely different.

On this pillar of dark gold light between this world and the original plane, the world consciousness fluctuations of the giant plane are much weaker.

"Is it because there's another world between us?" Moran wondered. She immediately stopped the Starry Ark and stared at the level eight world on the screen. She then used the Fortune Telling Technique again to determine the fortune of entering this world.

"Xiaoji?"

Seeing this result, a flash of realization crossed Moran's eyes: "Could it be... that the level of danger in entering these worlds is directly correlated with the intensity of the world consciousness fluctuations of the giant plane on the black gold pillar connecting them?"

This conjecture gave her a jolt of excitement.

If the source of danger originates directly from the world consciousness of that giant plane, does it mean that the world consciousness of that giant plane has already infiltrated and controlled some of the laws of this world through these black gold pillars?
Only in this way can the strength of the world consciousness on the black gold pillar affect the fortune of her entering this world.

Moran immediately turned to Sentai and said, "Get me all the previous detection data on the intensity of the world consciousness fluctuations within the black gold pillar!" (End of Chapter)