From a distance, the point of light blinked in the starry sky like an eye.
"Strange. Why does the light keep flickering?" Li Shuyi asked.
"They say the entrance to this secret realm lies within an asteroid belt," Bai Xiaowen said. "That's probably why the light changes."
"Captain, you can't go over with us, can you?" Qiao Rui reminded him.
Bai Xiaowen nodded. "Right. When I spoke with Queen Bee, I said the four of you would explore it. I shouldn't show myself and draw everyone's attention."
As he spoke, Bai Xiaowen bent slightly and wiped a hand across his face.
He used the Transformation Art. His tall, straight frame became slightly hunched, wrinkles appeared on his face, and a beard grew from his chin.
He looked like a different person.
"So this is what the Transformation Art does. I can't make sense of it." Qiao Rui reached out to touch Bai Xiaowen's beard. Though it looked real, her hand passed through it like a projection.
Stranger still, even when Qiao Rui scanned it with her Spirit Sense, she couldn't tell whether the beard was real.
Bai Xiaowen smiled. "I don't know much about the Crowfang Secret Realm either. Be careful, everyone. We shouldn't meet again before it opens. I'll join you inside."
After Li Shuyi and the other three agreed, they flew toward the point of light.
Bai Xiaowen waited half an hour. Only after Li Shuyi and the others had vanished from sight did he set off.
Along the way, he saw many wonders of the cosmos. Its grandeur awed even Evolvers who had transcended the limits of mortal life, making them feel small.
The light looked close, but it was a long flight. Bai Xiaowen had only just learned to fly with Origin Force and wasn't fast.