Four hundred Pure Chaos Crystals dropped into his inventory. Qin Chuan raised a hand and gripped the gray-white bone fragment, but the Causal Line did not shorten at all.
The Origin Essence lingering on the bone was fading. The Lord of the Altar had died so completely that the guidance he left behind had never been stable to begin with.
Yet the Causal Line still ran straight into the depths of the Sea of Chaos.
"Still pretty far."
Qin Chuan put away his twin blades and followed the Causal Line onward.
The Sea of Chaos had no fixed direction. The space beneath his feet could flip at any moment.
One second, he could see the remains of a star floating in the distance. The next, they had been swept into a fold in space without a scrap left behind.
He activated Temporal Acceleration. With every step, he reappeared thousands of miles away.
After fifteen minutes, Qin Chuan stopped.
Ahead, the Causal Line plunged into an immense black sea.
It was not water.
Black matter flowed slowly through the Chaos. Broken shells drifted across its surface alongside the unrecognizable skeletons of giant beasts.
Qin Chuan crouched and fished out a piece of shell.
Bite marks covered it, and gray mucus that had yet to dry clung to its edges.
Chaos Beast Shed Shell. Quality: Void True God Tier. Note: A discarded shell left behind after a Chaos Beast tide devoured its own kind.
"The Chaos Beasts' lair?"
Qin Chuan tossed the shell aside.
Not far away, a floating black skeleton suddenly moved.
A thin tendril slipped out from beneath it, swept through the space around it, then snapped taut.
The entire Black Sea surged upward.
One beast.
Ten beasts.
Hundreds of Chaos Beasts crawled out of the black tide.