The Eternal Furnace drifted through absolute nothingness, seemingly a little faster than before, as though drawn by an invisible force toward the coordinates locked onto by the artifact spirit. Its body remained battered and riddled with cracks, yet beneath the faint glow of Chaos Origin that contained an unyielding will, it somehow radiated a tragic, indomitable resolve.
Inside the furnace, Li Wuyang's consciousness had sunk into an endless abyss of darkness. Only that strand of Chaos Origin, like an undying Heart Lamp, sustained his last trace of life. At the furnace core, Xuan's embryo was nourished by the faint glow. Though his aura was incomparably weak, he stubbornly clung to that sliver of vitality.
However, the calm was about to be shattered.
Behind the furnace, the void was silently torn apart. Three Void Ships shaped like black barracudas, their surfaces flowing with concealment runes, emerged like ghosts. They spread out in a triangular formation, trailing far behind the Eternal Furnace at an unhurried pace. Clearly, they were tracking it rather than launching an immediate attack.
Inside the largest Void Ship at the head of the formation, several cultivators dressed in the garb of the Stomach of the Glutton, their auras cold and sinister, were using a Water Mirror Technique to keep a close lock on the slowly moving black speck ahead.
"Are we certain it is the target?" asked a peak Golden Immortal leader with a scar across his face and sharp eyes.
"Reporting to Lord Shadow Fiend, there is no doubt!" replied a cultivator skilled in tracking respectfully. "Although its aura is extremely restrained, the level of energy fluctuations displayed by the water mirror, as well as that unique trace of Annihilation Dao Rhyme, closely match the Eternal Furnace and the possible target within it described by Lord Demon