A slash mark suddenly appeared in front of Su Xiao, tearing open a spatial passage to gradually form a doorway. Su Xiao stepped inside, and the scene before him changed drastically.
Above was a cloudless, endless blue sky, while beneath his feet, a flat crystalline ground was diffused with a layer of ankle-deep mist. A huge bell tower stood in the distance, its time fixed at 12 o'clock. This architecture notarized by the Void Tree represented that the Astral Realm was currently in the "present", rather than experiencing a time reversal or similar situations due to an invasion by "Out-of-World Beings".
Su Xiao stood in this mist. A hundred meters away on the opposite side, a figure sat upon a quaint stone chair on a high platform. This figure was over five meters tall, dressed in loose, gold-white robes-the exact attire of the Star Apostle leaders recorded in the historical scenes of the Black Maple Mother Tree.
By this moment, Su Xiao knew who those memorial wooden carvings in the topmost room of the Elemental Superconducting Tower on the Arcane Eternal Star actually were; they were all former Star Apostles.
The Supreme One leaned back against the stone chair, his lowered eyes looking at Su Xiao as if gazing at a rare piece of prey or a precious delicacy on a platter.
Yes, the Supreme One had been eroded even more severely by the passage of time. If it had been the Supreme One of the past, seeing Su Xiao at this moment might have brought a sense of gratification, but in the ensuing life-or-death battle, he certainly would not hold back. If even he could not be killed, there was no need to face those "Out-of-World Beings" directly, as it would be utterly impossible to suppress them.
The Supreme