The Pegasus, carrying Wang Yuanyuan, broke through the clouds, entering the stratosphere. Within the stratosphere, it trotted, its wings beating with each stride covering tens of thousands of meters. If it weren't for the wind barrier protecting Wang Yuanyuan, she would have been blown away long ago.
After a few minutes, Wang Yuanyuan gradually regained her senses, her beautiful eyes wide open as she looked down at the vast sea of clouds below. It was truly boundless, with clouds rolling in the distance and the sky a deep blue.
The scene before her was magnificent, with waves and grandeur, so spectacular that Wang Yuanyuan almost doubted if she was dreaming.
"Whistle..."
The Pegasus seemed to be running freely for the first time, excitedly throwing its head back and neighing. Its pure, wide wings flapped, causing the surrounding clouds to explode, increasing its speed as it turned into a streak of light racing towards the edge of the sky.
Wang Yuanyuan was so frightened by this terrifying speed that she quickly lay flat on the Pegasus's back, gripping its soft and long mane tightly. However, her worry was unnecessary, as a strange force firmly kept her fixed on the back of the horse. Even if she wanted to fall off, it would be impossible.
The excited Pegasus forgot itself, flying higher and higher, farther from the ground, eventually soaring out of the atmosphere into outer space. The view outside was so vast that only the endless outer space seemed to allow it to gallop freely.
When Wang Yuanyuan finally realized this wasn't a dream and tried to make the Pegasus stop, she was horrified to find it increasingly difficult to breathe as the air became thinner at high altitudes.
"Don't fly any higher, don't go up anymore..."
Wang Yuanyuan was terrified, feeling weightlessness, the sensation of which was very uncomfortable for her.
Unfortunately, they were already in outer space, in a vacuum, where sound couldn't travel. The Pegasus couldn't hear her voice at all.
The temperature in outer space couldn't be maintained, and it had already dropped to freezing point. Wang Yuanyuan started to suffocate, her body frozen. Just as she was on the verge of suffocation, she suddenly felt a "crack," as if some shackles within her body had broken.
At the same time, her body seemed to gradually become warm, and though she had been unable to breathe before, her lungs felt less pressure. It seemed as if her skin was automatically absorbing some mysterious energy in the vacuum.
To her astonishment, she also discovered that her body appeared to be enhancing at a rate she could feel. The sunlight from the sun was absorbed by her skin.
"Is this… am I really dreaming?"
Wang Yuanyuan's face paled, her beautiful eyes staring at the surrounding scene.
Below her was an endless, blue planet, with faint traces visible, resembling the boundary between land and sea. She saw a satellite floating a few thousand meters away, its two solar panels reflecting light before quickly being flung behind.
She looked at the glaring star in front of her, its light illuminating the side of Earth, while the other side remained pitch black. She also saw the brilliant, twinkling stars in the vast cosmic sky—a scene so grand that it was beyond description.
She felt as if she had seen a new world, with a grand door to a whole new world opening before her.
"Heaven, am I really… dreaming?" Wang Yuanyuan muttered, as if in a trance.
Looking at the Pegasus joyfully soaring through outer space beneath her, and thinking about its origin, Wang Yuanyuan vaguely sensed something, but couldn't quite believe it.
What she didn't know was that the ability she had just awakened, to survive in the vacuum, was incredibly miraculous.
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In the vast and endless cosmic starry sky, filled with brilliant and countless stars, there was also an overwhelming coldness and darkness.
A spaceship was moving forward continuously. It had been more than two months since it left Earth, and it was now over 1 light-year away.
The spaceship had passed more than ten star systems, but none of them showed signs of life. The planets in those systems either lacked atmospheres or were filled with toxic substances, making life impossible.
At this moment, the spaceship was traveling at ten times the speed of light, and on its surface, Fang Yuan was still sitting cross-legged. The terrifying speed seemed to have no effect on him.
Though Fang Yuan had traveled to places thousands of light-years from Earth, he had never been to this particular area.
The reason he was following this spaceship was that he saw the spaceship's cause and effect, which seemed to indicate that it would encounter something interesting.
One day, while Fang Yuan had his eyes closed, he suddenly opened them, his eyes shining with divine light. Ignoring the spaceship's terrifying speed, he looked ahead at the starry sky.
Within a star system ahead, he vaguely sensed a familiar aura—it was the aura of the source!
However, this source aura was extremely weak. Without being close, it would have been impossible to sense it. This was also under the premise that his cells had undergone a transformation of one in a billion. If it had been before, he likely wouldn't have been able to sense the faint source aura.
"The cause and effect guiding me to this place, is it here?" Fang Yuan wondered.
At the same time, a crew member in the spaceship suddenly shouted, "Look, that planet..."
"Could it be a life-bearing planet?"
"Where? Where?"
The crew member rushed over quickly.
The starry sky scanner detected a signal, and through video, a yellow-green planet appeared on the screen.
"Look, this planet has green on it. Could it be a life-bearing planet? All the ones we've seen before were brown, black, or yellow. We've never seen a green one," the crew member who first spotted it said excitedly.
"It's possible..."
"Quick, captain…"
Soon, the captain arrived and saw the planet on the screen, his eyes glowing. "How far is this planet from us?"
"Not too far, it's in the nearby star system, about 80 million kilometers. At our speed, we'll be there quickly."
"My God, thank goodness this spaceship underwent a mysterious transformation, or we wouldn't even be able to scan the planet at such a high speed."
This spaceship had people from multiple countries, and they spoke many languages. Sometimes, even if they spoke their own languages, they could still communicate.
"Let's go and check it out!" the captain clenched his fist, praying in his heart, "God bless, please let it be a life-bearing planet."
The other crew members were all excited.
"My God, we've found a life-bearing planet so quickly!"
"Blessed Buddha, please don't let us be disappointed..."
"Don't get too excited just yet. This color could also mean toxic gases. Be prepared for disappointment." Some weren't so optimistic.
The spaceship began to slow down. Due to its massive mass, it would be a problem to decelerate suddenly, so it had to do so gradually.
Finally, two hours later, the spaceship entered the star system and approached the yellow-green planet.
This star system had seven planets, and the yellow-green planet was the third closest to its star, rotating and orbiting on its path.
Outside this yellow-green planet, there were two moons, both with diameters of about 500 kilometers—one brown and the other blue.
The spaceship's scanning equipment, enhanced by Fang Yuan, was incredibly powerful, allowing them to observe the surface of the planet clearly even from millions of kilometers away.
"Oh my God, look! Those are plants... this planet has plants..."
"It really is plants! Though there aren't many, there are definitely some. This means there's at least oxygen on this planet."
Everyone became excited, eager to land on the planet.
The spaceship circled the planet and then flew toward the atmosphere. The crew began to awaken those who had been in cryosleep a month ago.
But at that moment, something unusual happened. A giant hand suddenly reached out from the planet, grabbing the spaceship. The speed was so fast that the crew didn't even have time to react.
Just as the hand was about to grab the spaceship, a dazzling sword light tore through the starry sky, cutting the hand in two.
"Ah… Damn, who dares to attack this world god..."
A voice full of rage came from within the planet.
On top of the spaceship, Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with a serious look, though his expression was strange. "World god? Is it like me, a world god? But why does it feel so weak? It's weaker than the life force of that star!"
Suddenly, Fang Yuan realized something and his expression became even stranger. "Could it be that, like me, it is a world god in its own world, but becomes weak in the outside world?"
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan became excited. This was the first time he had encountered another world god. He was very curious about what other world gods were like.
And this one, who called himself a world god, seemed really weak. It was even weaker than one-billionth of his own strength. Just now, he casually slashed with his sword and split the hand in half. He had even suppressed his strength, otherwise, the planet below would have been split in two.
Fang Yuan stepped forward and directly pursued the hand into the planet, preparing to capture the "foreign world god" for research.