The Secret of Everlasting Youth (Part 2)

With that step, the stars seemed to wheel and the cosmos to shift before Ning Ye's eyes.

The power of space was carrying him away from this place, taking him somewhere else.

Ning Ye did not resist. He allowed space to shift around him, even sensing every change within it in that instant.

Though it lasted only a moment, Ning Ye seemed to have seen through every mystery within it. Confident divine light shone in his eyes, and his smile grew ever brighter.

When the spatial transfer ended, Ning Ye found himself in a vast starry realm.

This was a scorched, dark land.

The surrounding wilderness stretched endlessly, not a blade of grass in sight.

Only in the distance did a patch of starlight gleam.

Without seeming to move, Ning Ye appeared directly before that starlight.

There, he saw a rift. Countless scenes could vaguely be seen beyond it, like the myriad fleeting manifestations within the Myriad Manifestations Map, endless star realms transformed into points of light before his eyes.

And seated before the rift was none other than Shu Wuning.

Her sacred visage was solemn. Rings of light continuously shone from within her body, forming boundless arrays of runes that suppressed the entire rift beneath them.

Slowly opening her eyes, Shu Wuning looked at Ning Ye.

She smiled. "Master, you've finally come. Forgive your disciple for being indisposed and unable to greet you properly."

Ning Ye walked over, looked at her, then at the rift behind her, and understood everything.

He sighed. "Was it worth it?"

Shu Wuning smiled. "As they say, if one hears the Dao in the morning, one may die that evening without regret. The secrets of Heaven and Earth are vast and boundless; there is no road to Heaven, yet there is a gate into