Almost at the same instant, a dark red beam shot from the Dark Red Orb atop the massive hall, sweeping precisely across the spot where Little Crane had just been.
Wherever the beam passed, the Void silently vanished, exposing the deep chaos beyond.
Had she been half a breath slower, the Void would not have been the only thing erased.
"Were we spotted?"
The Myna bird's voice shook with alarm.
"I'm not sure!"
Little Crane sped through a rift in the Void without looking back. "That beam seemed more like a routine scan than a targeted attack. But we can't gamble on it. We have to leave, quickly."
She stopped concealing her aura and drove the Space Law to its limit, racing through the rift.
Behind her, the Dark Red Orb atop the massive hall seemed to sense something. Its pulse suddenly quickened, and rings of Dark Red Ripples spread rapidly across the entire Star Core Graveyard.
Countless members of the Devil Race poured from their lairs, setting up layer upon layer of blockades in the Void.
Little Crane darted left and right through the rift. Relying on the Void Crane Clan's innate Spatial Talent, she narrowly slipped past every blockade.
When she finally burst through the warped membrane of space surrounding the Star Core Graveyard and returned to the Gray-White Void of the Sea of Laws, she felt as though she had awakened from a nightmare.
"We made it out..."
The Myna bird let out a long breath.
Little Crane did not pause. Following her connection to Fang Chen, she became a streak of Silver Radiance and sped toward him.
Fang Chen sat cross-legged on a floating piece of Law-Sediment Rock, the Floating Immortal Sword resting across his knees. Eight-Colored Dao Patterns flowed slowly along its blade.
His eyes