Will He Return?

Another request for leave had failed...

In the void, Qin Heng vanished without a trace and fled through space at unprecedented speed.

He did not head directly for the Pangu Sky Pillar. There were too many experts there; the moment he showed himself, he would be recognized.

In one breath, he traversed into the distant Rootless Soil, remained invisible, and continued traveling through space.

He had intended to go farther, but a Space Storm suddenly swept through the void and dragged him into a small Void Passage.

Qin Heng hurriedly shielded himself with the power of space, lest he lose himself in the turbulent current.

After a spell of dizziness and disorientation, Qin Heng crashed onto a lonely floating island.

Looking up, he saw enormous stellar matter overhead, scorching and dazzling. Beyond it, he could vaguely make out the glow of a Sky Pillar.

"Did I run into a spatial vortex...?"

Qin Heng steadied himself and sensed his surroundings. He discovered that the Void Whirlpool had pulled him to the other side of the Void Well, hundreds of billions of kilometers away from the Pangu Sky Pillar.

This is good too. After running so far in one go, no one will imagine that strike was my handiwork, Qin Heng thought.

By his own means, a long stretch of spatial travel would at most carry him thirty or forty million kilometers. To top experts, that was not even as far as the range of their divine sense.

Encountering a Void Whirlpool was actually a good thing.

Of course, that was also because he had mastered the Space Law and could protect himself. Otherwise, falling into a Void Whirlpool might have left him forever lost in the void's turbulent currents, never to return.

Qin Heng burrowed underground. His physical body entered the