As he pondered, He Ao slowly retreated. His entire body gradually blurred, nearly merging into the dim space.
The distant point of light gradually enlarged, revealing the majestic, enormous form of a spaceship as it slowly approached this dim Deep Space.
A faint invisible barrier surrounded the enormous spaceship, vaguely refracting the surrounding starlight and making the reflections of the stars twist along the ship's edges before returning to normal.
The spaceship continued accelerating, faster and faster, until it streaked through the deep sea of stars and the distant stars completely became scattered points of light.
Boom—
The instant it passed through a patch of dim void, the flying spaceship shuddered violently, and its movement came to a complete halt.
At that very moment, dazzling starlight lit up deep within the ship, then enveloped the entire vessel, sketching out a gigantic Starlight Figure in the Deep Space behind it.
The Starlight Figure stood behind the spaceship, its entire body faint and indistinct, impossible to see clearly. It seemed as though an invisible barrier separated its body from the spacetime here.
Yet the radiance from the Starlight Figure's body still illuminated everything around it, lighting up the dark space.
A massive void rift stretching hundreds of kilometers lay directly before the spaceship.
The surrounding spacetime was trembling violently along with the rift. Countless tiny cracks crawled across the invisible barrier outside the ship, then passed through it and spread into the spacetime around the vessel.
Like countless tiny tentacles, these cracks extended densely from the depths of spacetime, winding toward the enormous spaceship.
Some of the faster-spreading cracks had already reached the ship's edges, their slender tips brushing against its exterior.
The sturdy metal was torn apart by the cracks like fragile paper, opening massive gashes.
The gigantic Starlight Figure watched