The silver, streamlined spacecraft hurtled through the hyperspace passage.
This had originally been the Celestial Pivot Divine Domain's highest-spec shuttle, the "Truth," yet now it was like an out-of-control particle, madly leaping through the bizarre cracks between dimensions.
The starlight beyond the windows was stretched into perfectly straight lines by the extreme speed, before shattering into countless blocks of color.
Monk Huineng clutched the armrests tightly, his knuckles whitening from the force.
His entire face was pressed against the reinforced glass, his features slightly distorted by the crushing overload of gravity.
"Benefactor Lin, this speed... urgh..."
Huineng dry-heaved, forcibly swallowing the sour bile rising in his throat.
"When this humble monk came to this Star Domain back then, I rode in a smuggled cargo hold and spent a full thirty years on the journey."
"And here you are, finishing thirty years' worth of travel in three minutes. This humble monk's three souls and seven spirits are probably still chasing after my body somewhere behind us."
Lin Mu sat upright in the command seat, his expression calm. In his hand, he idly turned a diamond-shaped crystal emitting a gentle white glow.
It was the core control unit he had dismantled from the "Cannon of Truth" before leaving.
"Elvira, report the readings." Lin Mu ignored the monk's complaints.
Elvira stood before the control console, the four wings behind her drawing in slightly.
Watching the red warnings flashing wildly across the screen, she knitted her brows.
"Master, this is bad. This spacecraft's power system was built upon the logic of the Celestial Pivot Divine Domain's 'pure light energy.' It must constantly draw free light elements from the universe as fuel."
Elvira's finger traced a path across the star map.
"Up ahead is the Abyss boundary wall. That place is a forbidden zone for