Chen Yi and Ni Bai headed to a place called Shurima.
Unlike the frozen tundra of Freljord, Shurima was a desert.
It had once possessed a prosperous civilization, and the Ascended army formed of Ascended Warriors had been invincible.
With the invasion of the Void, a great war broke out between the Ascended and the Void.
The powerful Ascended Warriors relied on the Power of Ascension to drive back the Void and seal every Void Creature behind the gate.
Although Shurima won, many Ascended were corrupted by the Void, their minds changing.
The Ascension Ritual of Shurima's last emperor ended in failure, reducing the entire empire to ruins. All that remained of Shurima's former glory was legend upon people's lips.
The Ascended Warriors of old had also become Vastayan.
That was the information Ni Bai had provided.
Yet she had not explained how the Ascended Warriors had become Vastayan.
Nor had she explained why Shurima had perished after losing a single Human Emperor.
Chen Yi nodded without commenting.
It was a common method of misdirection.
Every sentence was true, but with one crucial piece of information missing, the meaning became entirely different.
But...
The Void?
Corruption?
Since when could those two terms be put together?
If she had said the Abyss or Old Gods, Chen Yi would not have found it the slightest bit strange.
But it was the Void.
Something was clearly wrong.
Usually, the Void people spoke of was the region outside the world bubbles, where all worlds floated within the Void.
The Void was vast and boundless. No one had ever reached its edge.
Mages had once speculated that there was another Void, but it remained mere speculation, with no one able to verify whether it was true.
What people commonly called a Void invasion actually referred