He wanted to ask more, but at that moment.
Buzz!
A violent spatial tremor swept through, and the distorted streams of light instantly calmed.
The teleportation was over.
Shen Yi and Mia emerged from the fading radiance, their feet touching solid ground.
Shen Yi instinctively lifted his gaze and looked ahead.
Then his pupils trembled slightly.
Because the sight before him was incomparably familiar.
What entered his vision was no longer the chaotic, shattered void Beyond the World, filled with turbulent currents of laws and strange starlight.
Instead, there was an azure sky, white clouds, the faint outlines of continuous mountain ranges in the distance, and solid earth beneath his feet carrying the scent of soil and grass.
The air was mixed with the smell of gunpowder, dust, and a faint yet impossible-to-ignore trace of Black Fog, but at its core was a scent carved into his soul—the scent of home.
This... was Blue Star??
Before Shen Yi lay a scene he knew all too well.
Within Xia Country stood a vast wilderness that had once been severely eroded by Black Fog. Though it had later undergone arduous purification and reconstruction, it still bore the scars of war and an air of desolation.
At the center of that wasteland stood a temporary wooden structure, simple in design and utterly out of place amid its surroundings, radiating faint yet steady fluctuations of laws.
Around the building hung a nearly invisible, intangible barrier that made the Shadow Authority and Flame of Continued Combustion within Shen Yi stir at the same time.
Within the barrier, he could faintly sense an aura.
An aura so weak it was like a dying candle in the wind, yet unimaginably tenacious, carrying an ancient and desolate air.
Shen Yi's hand slowly clenched.
He recognized that aura. Though