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Inside the world, the women stared, dumbfounded by Zhao Changhe’s latest stunt.
No one had ever considered the possibility of running off with the entire world, not even Ye Wuming. Her approach to hiding the Heavenly Tome’s world had always relied on spatial transference, slipping it into alternate dimensions. She had never once entertained the notion of simply pocketing it and fleeing.
A frog in a well only knows the sky to be as large as the mouth of the well permits it to see. Even someone like Ye Wuming, who had stepped beyond the bounds of her world and roamed the myriad realms, still struggled to conceptualize her own world as something small enough to carry.
This kind of thinking could only come from true outsiders. The original Heavenly Dao, for instance, or Zhao Changhe.
After all, had they not always said that the Heavenly Tome was a divine treasure? What were such treasures if not objects that can be brought around? If it were something that could only be anchored in a single place, then it was not a treasure but an array… or a trap.
And besides, hadn’t anyone seen The Wandering Earth?[1]
Sitting around here waiting to be hunted down, was that not the behavior of idiots? The Heavenly Dao had already left behind countless hidden marks here, yet they had wasted thirty years doing nothing? That time could have been used to flee into the furthest reaches of the cosmos. Who would ever find them then?
So what truly was the mighty Night Emperor who had schemed across two eras? Wasn’t she just a frog, after all?
As he entertained these… entertaining thoughts, Zhao Changhe was merrily bolting away.
Inside the tome, however, the women were anything but merry. No matter how ridiculous the situation seemed, they all understood how dangerous it truly was.
Zhao Changhe was facing an enemy who was at the Other Shore Realm. He was being hunted, and he was practically alone.
Under that kind of pressure, he had to dodge and weave at lightning speed. One would expect the people inside the “vehicle” to be tossed...
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