Above the central stone bridge of the Ink-Sea Library, the mountain-sized Iron Stamp of Tragic Canon in Grand Proofreader Mo Wu’s right hand hummed with crushing gravitational weight. Red ink dripped from the giant seal characters carved into its flat iron base—characters that spelled out [APPROVED FOR IMMEDIATE FAMILY TRAGEDY].
Behind Mo Wu, ten thousand twenty-foot-tall Censor-Ink Golems beat their iron-stamp shields against their serrated ink-spears in a deafening, rhythmic cadence: CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Meanwhile, all around the vast cavern of Floors Two and Three, ten trillion red-bristled Auto-Quill Brushes continued scribbling fatal accidents across ten trillion floating jade destiny books. Grandpa Fu’s pocket watch ticked steadily: Twenty-six minutes and forty seconds remaining until the Mandatory Orphanhood Overwrite permanently locked into lower-realm reality.
Gu Changsheng did not rush forward into the ten-thousand-golem phalanx.
He knew that if a full-scale brawl broke out right here among the shelves. Stray shockwaves from a Rank 9 Peak clash could easily rip through the fragile jade destiny books floating only yards away. And every torn page meant a mortal town or planet below getting crushed.
Instead, Gu Changsheng casually leaned one elbow on the handle of his [Frost-Pine Town Iron Wok Spatula], tilted his head up at the twenty-foot-tall scholar boss, and put on a look of mild curiosity.
