Buzz—
A barrier stood before Li Tianming, obscuring the contents within the tower from view.
When he reached out and touched the barrier, the disciple token at his waist emitted a faint glow, and a gentle force pulled him inward.
Following that force, Li Tianming entered the tower.
Once inside the Young Emperor Tower, the entrance barrier behind him was gone.
Everything before his eyes was pitch-black, as though a black hole had devoured every trace of light.
Whoosh!
Six lines of golden text suddenly appeared before Li Tianming. The first was clearly visible: "Starlight Torrent."
The other five were dim, impossible to make out clearly.
"Looks like these should be the names of the stages..." Li Tianming guessed.
"Starlight Torrent" began to flicker, as if hinting at something.
Li Tianming tried reaching out to touch it. Suddenly, the ground vanished beneath his feet, and he fell into an endless vortex.
After a spell of whirling sky and spinning earth, Li Tianming arrived somewhere entirely new.
He was inside a vast, chaotic nebula that was birthing stars, filled with violent streams of interstellar dust, destructive cosmic rays, and meteor swarms that constantly condensed and shattered apart.
This was an exceptionally unstable space.
Even after the Guan Zizai Realm within the Young Emperor Tower had forcefully modified it, he could still sense just how harsh this environment was.
What appeared before Li Tianming was a world resembling a desert.
Countless mountain-sized boulders gathered and collapsed, over and over in an endless cycle. Under the blazing rays, even space twisted faintly. If a person were struck by them, they would lose a layer of skin even if they did not die. Coupled with the storms sweeping up endless sand and dust, it was both like an inferno and like a natural defensive