Ten Years of Life and Death, a Calamity Away, Surrounded by Five Saints!

There was no one he needed to say goodbye to, no need for one farewell after another.

All he had was a resolve that would not waver until he succeeded.

He would press forward, leaving life and death behind.

Li Beichen left his Yama Dharma Body at the edge of the Void Land beyond Yang Pass, while his true body began to travel through the vast depths of the void.

He took the golden hair into his palm and tried to use it to sense the Great Sage Equal to Heaven's presence and location.

But the hair remained as still as ever, giving no response.

Li Beichen was not surprised. He put it away safely, then took out the rough star chart Shen Gongbao had given him. After identifying the approximate location where Sun Wukong had last left traces of battle ten years earlier, he sped toward it.

He pushed the Speed Dao to its limit and became a shaft of divine light that seemed to date from the first parting of heaven and earth, racing through the empty, silent void at an unrivaled speed.

A few years earlier, he would still have needed to open a gateway to the Void Land now and then to confirm he was headed roughly the right way.

But after years of repeated exploration and practice in the Void Land, and with his grasp of the changes undergone by Nether World Quasi-Saints, he could now roughly judge his position and direction in this starless void, where there was no up or down and no end.

To open two doors at once, as he had demonstrated to the saints of Yang Pass, he needed coordinates for both locations.

Yet Li Beichen had only the coordinates of the World of the Living within the Void Land.