In the vastness of space.
Whoosh~
Zhu Wujiu streaked through the void like a beam of light.
Before long, he had drawn close to the source of the anomalous gravitational signal.
"What exactly is that signal source? A cosmic wonder? Some powerful being? Or an advanced alien weapon?"
He pondered it to himself. Sensing that he was nearly there, he stopped.
Standing in the void, he looked in every direction. Two seconds later, he froze, too shocked to speak!
Some ten thousand kilometers ahead and to his right hung a pale violet vortex, several hundred meters across. It turned slowly, like flowing water or drifting mist.
"Could this thing be... a wormhole?!"
His eyes lit up with curiosity. He pushed off and shot to the vortex in an instant.
Up close, he examined it carefully. Light entering the vortex bent and twisted, making the river of stars behind him look as though it were reflected within, slowly turning. It was breathtaking.
"What a magnificent wonder of the universe..."
After a heartfelt sigh, he extended his right hand, and a keen-edged saber appeared.
He gripped the saber and slowly eased it into the vortex. A pull tugged at it—not strong enough to drag him in by force, but the half-submerged blade seemed to twist and tremble, humming without cease.
After barely a second's thought, he murmured, "Twenty-two years ago, I reached the Seventh-Level Immortal God Realm and became unrivaled in this world. Since then, I haven't advanced a single step. What mysteries lie beyond the Seventh Level?
"If the stars weren't so vast, and losing my way without coordinates so easy, I would have set off alone long ago to seek a path forward and search for opportunities.
"Perhaps finding this wormhole today is a chance Heaven has given me. I