Five-Minute Loop

While Chu Yunyi was cruising through space aboard the Star Dome-IV, the starship's Spacetime Fluctuation Detector suddenly picked up an anomalous signal. The spacetime structure in the Spacetime Crystal Wall Belt was experiencing violent tremors. The belt was a natural barrier separating different cosmic quadrants, made of Crystal Wall Crystals imbued with Spacetime Energy. If the wall ruptured, the spacetime turbulence from different quadrants would collide, triggering a universe-wide catastrophe. Chu Yunyi immediately changed course and headed for the belt.

The Crisis in the Spacetime Crystal Wall Belt and the Arrival of the Spacetime Crystal Wall Race

The Spacetime Crystal Wall Belt shimmered like brilliant stained glass. Countless Crystal Wall Crystals were embedded in the barrier's surface like diamonds, radiating energy that stabilized spacetime. But now, cracks had appeared in some of the crystals, and the Spacetime Crystal Wall Race was pouring through them. They resembled humanoid beings made of transparent crystal, their bodies traced with flowing silver lines of Spacetime Energy. Each gripped a Spacetime Cutting Blade made from fragments of the crystal wall, and they were constantly siphoning Spacetime Energy from it.

"Unknown biological energy signal detected. Spacetime Energy Plunder Index: 98%!" the Shipboard AI's alarm blared urgently. "They can drain energy from the Spacetime Crystal Wall, destabilizing its structure and causing spacetime turbulence!" One of the beings spotted the Star Dome-IV and swung its Spacetime Cutting Blade. A silver Spacetime Rift shot toward the starship. Chu Yunyi activated the Star Core Shield. When the rift struck the shield, spacetime wrinkles appeared across its surface, and time slowed abnormally in some areas.

Worse still, the Spacetime Crystal Wall Race could use Spacetime Resonance to create Spacetime Traps—traps that confined anything entering them to a fixed fragment of spacetime. The Star Dome-IV accidentally entered one, and the starship was