Alien Hotel.

Chapter 711 Cave Entrance
The collapse of the Sacred Realm planet is nearing its end; its lush yet illusory outer shell has now almost entirely fallen into the dark hole at the planet's center.

The crystalline branches that grew from the core area supported the few remaining landmasses, and from orbit, this scene looked like a mythical giant tree spreading its canopy in space, supporting the last few fertile soils when the world collapsed.

The last transport ships and escort forces rose into the air from the crumbling planetary debris, their engines streaking across the dark backdrop of space.

Bai Liqing and Hong stood on the bridge of the Mass Effect, looking at a scene in space through the large observation windows.

“…I have seen similar descriptions in the epics of the Alglad people,” Red said softly. “In their mythology, the planet beneath their feet has collapsed and been rebuilt three times.”

“Myths and epics are a mix of truth and falsehood, and anything can happen before the Great Annihilation,” Baili Qing said calmly. “But one thing is certain: the Hermitage, this cancer that has plagued the civilized world for centuries, has finally crumbled today.”

“The main body has undoubtedly collapsed, but the remaining poison may take many years to eradicate,” Red said calmly. “It is inevitable that some exiled priests will flee this star sector in advance, and their secret strongholds may still be hidden in other parts of the Dark Current Starfield. There will also be some fringe groups causing trouble under the name of the Hermitage. This cult nation has accumulated wealth over the centuries, and many things will not simply disappear because of the collapse of a capital planet.”

"It doesn't matter, I'm used to it. Cultists, warlords and pirates are always hard to eradicate," Baili Qing said calmly. "If even scattered Angel Cult members are like this, let alone a religious nation that has already established star sector order. Anyway, they won't amount to much after the first star collapses. We'll just kill as many as they show their faces."

“Disintegration…” Hong murmured softly, her “gaze” fixed on the planet that was collapsing in space. “I didn’t witness the celestial body incident firsthand, but this time I understand what ‘the Angel Hunter’s big commotion’ means. Ah Qing, it was right of you to choose to befriend this living being as soon as possible and try to anchor his self-awareness and stance on the side of humanity.”

Baili Qing simply hummed in response and didn't say anything more. She raised her head and gazed at the magnificent and awe-inspiring sight in space with Hong. Her face, which remained as frozen as ice, showed no emotion whatsoever.

Meanwhile, in space, a gigantic, silver-white nine-tailed fox was moving with light and graceful steps, crossing a patch of condensed ice mist rising from the planet's surface.

A transport ship that had recently taken off in haste flew past Huli, its lights flashing as it flew.

The leopard turned its head happily, raised its two front paws, and greeted the spaceship with a bow.

The little doll grabbed the fur on the fox's back and yelled, "You stupid fox, what are you praying to?! Someone was trying to overtake you and used their turn signal, and you just turned around and shoved it right in their face..."

Hu Li turned her face and said seriously, "Those are not overtaking lights. Besides, space is such a big place. It's not a controlled area like a starport where you need to plan your route. You don't need to use lights when passing by—if you need to use lights, it should be overtaking lights."

The little doll was stunned: "Is that so?"

Hu Li: "Trust me, I have a motorized immortal driving license..."

The little doll felt that the great fox demon was fooling it, and subconsciously opened its mouth, but before it could speak, it suddenly felt a figure appear beside it.

Turning my head, I saw it was Yu Sheng.

"Wow!" Eileen was startled on the spot, and then she was startled a second time by Yu Sheng's face. "Holy crap, Yu Sheng, your face is paler than a C-shaped button! You don't look like you've just come back to life, you look like you're about to die?!"

To be honest, the little doll's mouth was blessed. The moment she opened her mouth, Yu Sheng felt like he had plunged into a rubble pit. Even his molars were gritty as he gasped for breath. But he didn't have the energy to argue with this little thing at the moment, so he could only wave his hand weakly: "I'm almost exhausted - after I dealt with that so-called Holy Throne, I looked up and the whole planet was crashing down on me. Do you know how exciting that sight was?"

Eileen thought about it seriously and nodded repeatedly: "It feels more exciting than what we see from the sky."

"Anyway, everyone who needed to be evacuated has been evacuated now, so let this place slowly collapse..."

As Yu Sheng spoke, he reached out and ruffled the little doll's head before peering out from behind the great fox demon to observe the situation in the Holy Realm.

Large and small planetary debris floats in space, and many more debris had already been swallowed and absorbed by the Gate of Eden. Now, Yu Sheng has temporarily severed the connection between the Soul Wilderness and this passage. The crystal branches that grew from the cracks are rapidly dissipating, and fine crystal dust permeates the universe.

After absorbing enough matter and energy, the dark hole that was originally located at the core of the sacred land is now slowly expanding.

Yu Sheng suddenly stopped speaking halfway through his sentence. The little doll whose head he was patting immediately noticed and looked up in confusion.

"Yu Sheng, what's wrong?"

Yu Sheng seemed not to hear, still staring fixedly in that direction.

"Yu Sheng?" Eileen called out again in confusion, then finally realized what was happening and turned around to look.

The Gate of Eden at the center of the Sacred Ruins was still slowly expanding. The black hole, which originally occupied only a small portion of the Earth's core, had gradually grown to a scale that could not be ignored. After crossing a certain critical point, its expansion slowed down, as if it had reached a certain balance—yet its appearance made everyone instinctively hold their breath. It was a pitch-black celestial body, its extremely lightless surface resembling a void in the universe, similar in shape to a black hole, but without the gravitational disturbances of a black hole—it simply floated there silently, and apart from its optical presence, no detection equipment could capture any trace of its existence in the material universe.

The little puppet finally heard Yu Sheng speak: "It's Black Star..."

"The Gate of Eden is Black Star?! Black Star is a Gate of Eden?!" Eileen stood up abruptly from the raccoon's back, her little doll brain churning, but clearly this was something she couldn't figure out. "Wait, why is this so confusing... Boundary Bridge? So Black Star is a Boundary Bridge? Then when I climbed down from that bridge back then... I don't remember either?"

In her anxiety, the little thing even invoked the half-ominous premonition in her soul—and as it turned out, that half-ominous premonition didn't clarify the situation either.

Hu Li turned around, her voice much calmer than Eileen's: "My benefactor, could this thing go out of control? Are you 'connected' to it right now?"

“It’s connected, but I don’t fully understand what it is. This thing—it’s not purely a ‘boundary bridge’,” Yu Sheng said hesitantly, his brow furrowed. “It’s something… a ‘new thing’ that’s created after two boundary bridges are connected. The ‘Gate of Eden’ is inside it…”

He paused suddenly, then shook his head: "No, not inside, it's fused together."

Eileen and Huli looked at each other in bewilderment, while Luna next to them seemed a little confused as well. Only the artificial angel who had run out of the Holy Realm with Huli and the others was completely out of it, still floating leisurely in the space next to them, occasionally diving into the wilderness of souls, and then popping up out of thin air again.

"Let's go find Baili Qing and meet up first," Yu Sheng said quickly. "They have a lot of smart people and professional equipment over there. You guys, who can't even put together a primary school diploma, shouldn't be here shaking the machine."

Hu Li immediately agreed, turned around and used a Fox Carrot to accelerate, his nine tails shooting straight ahead towards the flagship of the unified fleet.

The artificial angel, who had been floating leisurely to the side, was taken aback upon seeing this. It quickly flapped its wings and tried its best to catch up. Halfway through, it realized that Hu Li was flying too fast and it couldn't keep up. Hu Li was anxious, so it pulled out its flaming greatsword and fired a triple beam of light behind it. It then charged forward, leaving a trail of pulse-driven flashes.

There was no sound in space. Yu Sheng only turned his head to look when he saw something behind him out of the corner of his eye. He broke out in a cold sweat on the spot, but he quickly relaxed. At least this living ancestor knew to shoot in the direction where no one was around, so he wasn't completely stupid.

This would be considered a clever move in a hotel.

The place where Yu Sheng and his group were staying was not far from the Mass Effect, so they did not open the door to take a shortcut. The group quickly arrived at the bridge where Baili Qing and Hong were—and it was as lively as Yu Sheng had expected.

Clearly, the black star that emerged from the Gate of Eden also intimidated everyone on the ship.

The technical officer was activating the ship's full-ship scanning system to closely monitor the dark celestial body. Other ships were sharing their observational intelligence with the flagship. Several probes had been launched to the original location of the sacred crust and were carefully orbiting the dark sphere at close range.

"Unable to scan the physical structure of the target celestial body... Unable to analyze the material composition of the target celestial body..."

"The gravitational signal is abnormal, too strange... When we actively observe it, it seems to be non-existent, but occasionally it will randomly produce slight gravitational perturbations..."

"A detector is being interfered with; this is a dangerous distance. Do not get too close."

"Closely monitor all space debris and spacecraft approaching the target object. Do not allow anything to touch its surface until we have figured out what it is. All units except for the probe ships shall begin to retreat."

Bai Liqing turned her head and looked at Yu Sheng and his group who had come to the bridge.

The normal thing is that they came in through the main entrance this time.

What's unusual is that when they came, they were followed by a living saint who was propelled by light cannon pulses the whole way.

If they hadn't spent so much time together, Baili Qing would have even considered activating all the ship's anti-aircraft guns for a moment.

“I don’t know if people become abnormal once they join your team, or if your team only accepts people who are not quite normal,” Baili Qing sighed, looking at the tall figure behind Piao Yusheng with a somewhat subtle expression, “…Could you ask her to put this sword away? It’s not safe for her to carry this on the bridge.”

The "artificial angel" was clearly able to understand what others were saying. She tilted her head when she heard Baili Qing's words, noticed the expression on Yu Sheng's face, and immediately waved her hand obediently, causing the giant flaming sword to vanish into thin air.

“She’s a new employee who just joined and is still getting used to things, so please be understanding,” Yu Sheng waved his hand. “Let’s not talk about that now, let’s talk about that ball outside first—and let’s make this clear, it’s definitely not in my plans.”

(End of this chapter)