Aboard the Sky Patrol Immortal Boat, in the "Stargazing" secret chamber. This was one of the immortal boat's forbidden areas, its four walls polished from entire Void Star Cores. Countless stellar trajectories naturally ran across their surfaces. At the center floated an enormous Myriad Stars Mirror, its surface smooth as if nothing were there, yet capable of reflecting the slightest energy fluctuations in distant starfields.
Li Wuyang and several grandmasters proficient in astrology and formations stood before the mirror, their expressions solemn. The scene within showed the distant Barren Star Domain. At the edge of that once-dead starfield, three stars that had originally emitted faint halos of life were now being eroded by a dusky tide invisible to the naked eye, yet detectable through the Myriad Stars Mirror's special runes.
"The rate at which their vitality is draining has increased more than tenfold!" A Formation Grandmaster with white hair and beard, known as the Star-eyed Elder, spoke in a trembling voice as he pointed at one of the stars in the mirror. "Look, the glow of its star core is shifting from green to gray, and the 'life veins' on its surface are rapidly withering! This is absolutely not natural decay!"
Tianjizi, another master skilled in divining heavenly secrets, calculated with his fingers, his face growing increasingly pale. "Strange! The heavenly signs show that these three stars have not reached the end of their fates. This upheaval was caused by an external force forcibly interfering and extracting the source of their lives! The method... I have never heard of it. It resembles some exceedingly ancient and evil sacrificial ritual!"
Li Wuyang focused intently, slightly expanding the Chaos Nirvana Domain as he tried to sense the nature of the dusky tide. An icy, utterly pure intent of deathly stillness came from