Three streaks of escaping light sped forward.
They did not split up.
The gray-clothed leader brought up the rear.
The remaining two One Grotto-Heaven cultivators stayed dozens of zhang ahead of him, one to the left and one to the right.
Behind them,
Lin Yi drew closer and closer.
One of them glanced back.
"He's catching up."
The gray-clothed leader did not turn around.
"Don't split up."
"Lead him into the backflow."
The two answered at once.
They immediately changed direction.
A vast field of shattered stars slowly rotated ahead.
Farther away, a grayish-white spatial turbulence stream passed between dozens of celestial bodies.
The turbulence itself was not particularly strong.
The real trouble was the shattered stars that had been swept about by it for a long time.
They moved at varying speeds.
Their trajectories constantly changed as well.
One careless mistake, and they would be struck head-on.
Yet the three did not slow down.
Clearly, they had been here before.
The gray-clothed leader was the first to slip into the field of shattered stars.
Then he suddenly shot upward.
His two companions followed closely behind.
After several changes in direction, the three used a massive shattered star flying toward them to conceal themselves.
Behind them,
Lin Yi paused for an instant.
He did not follow their route through.
Ten Capitals Grade—Spiritual Resonance Illuminates the Void spread outward.
The fluctuations of the surrounding space and the traces left by moving celestial bodies continuously entered his perception.
Very quickly,
he headed in another direction.
"He's gone."
The man on the far left spoke.
The gray-clothed leader finally looked back.
Behind them was utterly empty.
There was no Lin Yi.
Yet no relief showed on his face.
"Keep going."
The three instead accelerated even more.
The next moment,
the face of the