Gu Chenzhou saw Lin Yi as well.
A vast stretch of shattered rock layers lay between them.
The two locked eyes for an instant.
Neither spoke.
After the Star Marrow Tide receded, quite a few mineral veins that had once been buried deep within the celestial body had been exposed in this area.
The one before Gu Chenzhou was particularly intact.
Silver-white veins ran downward along the cracked celestial body.
It had not been completely laid bare yet.
Yet the portion already exposed was more complete than most of the Star Marrow Lin Yi had snatched during the tide in 287.
There were others nearby.
But no one dared approach too closely.
Lin Yi landed on the other side of the celestial body.
Gu Chenzhou's gaze lingered on him for a moment.
Then he withdrew it.
And continued deeper into the mineral vein.
The meaning was clear.
He had claimed this place.
Lin Yi understood as well.
Then he took a step forward.
Gu Chenzhou stopped.
"Still trying to steal?"
Lin Yi looked at the mineral vein.
"Good stuff."
Gu Chenzhou turned around.
His longsword hung at his side.
"Didn't get enough of that last fight?"
"I lost last time,"
Lin Yi said.
"So I'm trying again today."
Gu Chenzhou did not ask where his confidence came from.
Nor did he care to.
This was a resource field.
Since Lin Yi still dared reach out.
Then they would fight.
The longsword rose.
A streak of white sword light swept over in an instant.
Clean.
Just like the first time he had blocked Lin Yi's path in 286.
Its target was not Lin Yi's vital points either.
It still cut off the route by which Lin Yi would continue approaching the mineral vein.
Lin Yi drew his saber.
The Greater Divine