Little Crane led Myna bird, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine through the warped space surrounding the Star Core Graveyard, slipping through like an invisible breeze.
The moment she entered, even the well-traveled Little Crane felt her heart tighten.
Beyond that warped space lay another world entirely.
It was a shattered world.
Countless Star Fragments of every size floated in the Void. Some gave off a dull metallic sheen, while others looked like translucent crystal, with frozen star rivers faintly visible within them.
These fragments were Star Cores.
More precisely, they were the remains of an enormous Star Core that had shattered in the Ancient Era.
They drifted in a space held captive by some unknown force, linked by invisible fields into a vast, chaotic three-dimensional landscape.
Among the Star Core Fragments stood a dense sprawl of structures in strange shapes.
"Those buildings look so strange!"
The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm could not help exclaiming from inside Spirit Crane Space.
"Those aren't buildings. They must be lairs—Devil Race lairs!"
Myna bird stared ahead as he spoke.
Countless holes had been carved into some of the larger Star Core Fragments, and all manner of Devil Race creatures moved in and out of them.
Some were covered in black scales and looked like lizards, scrambling on all fours between the fragments; others had membranous wings like oversized bats and glided soundlessly through the Void; still others had no human shape at all, only masses of writhing flesh clinging to the Star Core Fragments and slowly devouring the Stellar Essence left within.
Though these creatures were not pureblooded members of the Devil Race, the Demonic Qi they gave off was unmistakably pure.
"Good grief..."
Myna bird's voice rang through Little Crane's Spiritual Sense, thick with shock. "I never thought this