In a silent stretch of starry sky, traces left behind by a great battle could be seen everywhere. Lu Ye led the group here and, after searching, found the wreckage of a battered warship.
This was a Sunlight-class warship. In any starry sky, it would have been a weapon capable of conquering cities and strongholds, yet now it was nothing more than a pile of scrap.
And there was no telling how many such wrecks lay scattered throughout this region.
They entered through a breach in the wreckage, wound their way through the warship's interior, and eventually arrived before a cabin.
A glimmer of dim light flashed. The Formation arranged here opened a narrow gap, and Lu Ye slipped inside, with the others following closely behind.
Once he steadied himself, Lu Ye saw a familiar figure standing directly before him.
It was Du Qingsha.
She was looking at Lu Ye as well, disbelief written all over her face. Clearly, she had never expected to see him again in her lifetime.
Back then, she and Lu Ye had been hunted by numerous Star Abyss cultivators and had fled in miserable disarray. In the end, Lu Ye had been taken away by a mysterious bridal sedan that suddenly appeared, and there had been no word of him ever since.
"Sister Sha, it's been a long time," Lu Ye said.
Only then did Du Qingsha come back to herself. She nodded faintly. "You're alive... that's good."
Over the past few years, she had seen far too much death. Companions, familiar and unfamiliar alike, had perished before her eyes one after another. The deaths she had witnessed in these recent years outnumbered all those she had seen in the rest of her life many times over.
Lu Ye then looked at the other two