Everyone feared the Fallen Star Abyss and could not flee it quickly enough.
Yet at that moment, Lin Feng felt neither the slightest fear nor the least inclination to retreat.
Of the nine tokens, eight were now in his hands. Only this one remained missing. This was the final step, the final trial, the final opportunity in gathering the tokens, opening the Return to the Ruins Secret Realm, and ascending to the supreme Great Dao. No matter how perilous, terrifying, or hopeless the Fallen Star Abyss might be, he had to press forward without looking back, enter the abyss, find the token, and bring this opportunity to completion.
There was no retreat on the road ahead. The path of the Great Dao demanded that he advance.
Lin Feng carefully placed the Jade Slip in his storage space, safely preserving this message from ancient times and the secret realm's heavenly secrets. Then, without lingering any longer, he turned back the way he had come and steadily followed the passage out of the underground hall.
Back on the formation platform in the valley, he once again channeled his spiritual power and activated the fully restored ancient Teleportation Array. Golden spiritual light flared anew, and the formation hummed and trembled. Familiar spatial power enveloped his body. In the next instant, light and shadow swirled, space folded, and his figure flashed away, returning safely to the wasteland of that barren, deathly silent abandoned ancient star.
With his feet on the familiar, rubble-strewn ground, his destination was now perfectly clear.
Lin Feng raised his eyes toward the boundless void at the far southern reaches of the Myriad Worlds Sea, his gaze resolute and his mind unwavering. Without another moment's hesitation, his spiritual power surged, and he rose into the air. Azure Cloud Step moved through