The final fusion button clicked down under Gu Changsheng’s thumb like an old rice cooker switching to warm.
Right above the tiled eaves of the Gu Family Five-Courtyard Mansion, one hundred billion Dad Points surged out of [Dad’s Care-Package Upgrade Box] in a river of warm golden light.
Then the sky above the porch roof split open with a nasty, high-pitched shriek.
Three hundred feet overhead, the three-mile iron spine of Upper-Realm Envoy Xue Sha’s wrecked orbital flagship twisted on itself. Black-and-purple spatial cracks spiderwebbed across its main reactor core. A jagged tear in the void ripped open right above the third courtyard’s guest-room chimney.
Cold vacuum suction howled down toward the brick patio. The bamboo clothesline rattled violently, and three of Auntie Qin’s drying bedsheets stood straight up like sails in a typhoon.
“Dad! The spare roof is leaking purple wind!”
Twelve-year-old Gu Nian planted his boots wide on the porch flagstones. His yellow bunny apron whipped around his knees as black-gold Chaos Qi flared across his knuckles. He raised his iron frying pan in both hands, ready to swat the falling chunks of dark flagship hull before they could dent his father’s stove.
Beside him, thirteen-year-old Ye Xiao pushed his round spectacles up his nose with one finger. His other hand rested on the hilt of his [Homework-First Bamboo Ruler Sword] while his eyes tracked the widening purple crack.
