The Ruins Star System was a transit station leading to the Evergreen Realm.
Just like its name, it was a wasteland of ruins, with scarcely any living beings settling there.
Its full name was a hybrid of three prefixes, translatable as "Great Scarlet Sky River DT94-12834 Ruins Star System." There were at least tens of billions of similar star systems in the Old Universe.
But most people disliked remembering serial numbers, so simply calling it the Ruins was enough.
After arriving here, the Black Gold still needed to travel for thirteen Void Ember Days before reaching another Void Passage and teleporting to the border starry skies of the Evergreen Realm.
This stretch of road was like a highway through remote mountains. Many people traveled along it, but everywhere beyond the road was uninhabited wilderness.
Qin Heng sat inside the ship, apparently sipping wine and listening to music, utterly at ease.
In truth, his main body was busy to death, constantly deducing the Dimensional Compression Method in his mind without a moment of rest.
A sublight-speed ship was considered relatively fast on the Ruins Star System routes. Many Old Universe civilian spacecraft and cultivators' single-pilot flyers along the way were slower than his.
After traveling for a while, the dragonman Qin Heng on the mechanical recliner slightly opened his eyes, a vicious glint flashing through them.
"Someone is tracking me?"
Within three hours, he had sensed nineteen void fluctuations. Eight of them had followed a very regular pattern, pursuing him in a straight line.
As someone who had achieved modest success in comprehending Space Law, his perception of spatial fluctuations was far sharper than that of ordinary people.
The nature of void shifts occurring around him was as obvious to him as the difference between passersby and hooligans before a sentry.