Lu Yin watched as the Evernight card slowly fell into his hand. "If my suspicions are true, then I hope to one day lead humanity to break past this false sky to see the true sky and the true universe.0

"I hope that, one day, I can allow everyone to make their own rules and restore true freedom!"3

There was a snap, and the sky opened. A dark line appeared, and it stretched out of sight of everyone who looked up.0

This was the Hollow, and it had appeared without any reason at all. It broke the sky open and split the ground below, making it look like the universe had been split asunder.0

Shan Gu, Sovereign Shao Yin, Xu Wuwei, and the other peak powerhouses all stared upwards in shock, none of them understanding what was happening. No enemy had attacked—in fact, there had been no attack at all. Despite that, space had just broken open.0

More accurately, it was not a spatial tear. Rather, reality itself had been torn apart as far as anyone could see. This was not space or the void that had been split, but reality itself. The fabric of the universes that everyone understood to be all that existed had been cracked open.0

On the floating island, Lu Yin was badly startled. He felt as though thunder had just exploded in his mind, and it caused his hands to tremble so badly that he nearly dropped the card in his hand.0

He looked up; were the...0