Deep within the Sea of Laws.
On a dark-gray meteorite fragment that had drifted for countless ages, two figures huddled in a natural fissure, suppressing their auras to the utmost.
A layer of gray-white law sediment covered them. For months, they had lain motionless while dust from the Sea of Laws settled over them, forming a disguise.
Unless someone deliberately investigated, even the divine sense of an Immortal Emperor-grade Expert sweeping past would mistake them for ordinary bumps on the meteorite's surface.
Immortal King Shen Yi of the God Race. A Seven-Turn Immortal King.
Immortal King Yuege of the Elf Race. A Seven-Turn Immortal King.
They and a large group of others had been ordered to search for the legendary Star Core Graveyard. More than three months had passed since they set out.
After entering the Sea of Laws, they had been separated from their companions and swept into a Law Storm. They had survived by the skin of their teeth and discovered the Star Core Ancient Tomb.
Three months earlier, when they received their orders, the New Alliance had just completed the oath of the Myriad Races, and plans to repair the Spacetime Compass had only just been placed on the agenda.
Alliance Leader Fang Chen was still in seclusion, comprehending the Fusion Dao. The ingredients for the Heaven-Deceiving Earth-Changing Pill were far from complete, and the great battle against the Sixth-Turn Heavenly Slave had yet to occur.
They knew nothing of what had happened back home since then: the successful refinement of the Heaven-Deceiving Earth-Changing Pill, the arrival and fall of the Order Heavenly Slave, or Fang Chen's breakthrough to Sixth Turn Combat Strength.
Over those three months, they had crossed countless Star Domains and passed through danger after danger on the outskirts of the Sea of Laws.