Waiting in the Darkness, Preparing for Battle

In the boundless darkness of the Void Sea, a starship drifted silently, as if it had merged with the darkness.

Liang Ji, Senior Sister Bian Yujiao, and the others were aboard the starship, doing everything they could to conceal their auras and mana fluctuations. They didn't even look too closely into the darkness, lest they reveal their presence and let the Divine Realm's deities, also lurking and roaming through the darkness, discover them first and launch a fatal ambush.

It was only then that Liang Ji learned the stellar art Star Protection could also conceal one's aura and mana fluctuations, and thwart detection.

Following the technique Senior Sister Bian Yujiao had taught him, he made a slight adjustment to the circulation of the Mana Field around him, drawing in his aura, mana fluctuations, and everything else as if he were gathering them into his Natal Star. Even if someone looked right at him, they would be unable to sense that he was aboard the starship.

The same was true of the others. When he looked around, Senior Sister Bian, Senior Brother Chen, Junior Brother Liu, and the rest had all concealed their auras and mana fluctuations, vanishing from his senses.

There was no doubt that Star Alliance Star Lords had developed these methods through experience in battlefields like the Void Sea. Liang Ji had come here with Senior Sister Bian this time ostensibly to help her with her assessment, but more importantly, he was here to learn from her experience and methods, preparing for his own graduation assessment later on.

Star Lords had their own methods of concealment, while the other Third Rank Immortals each had their own ways of hiding their auras and concealing their mana fluctuations. To avoid revealing themselves, no one aboard the starship probed the outside