The Star Abyss's invasion of a starry sky had always proceeded step by step, the entire process often lasting hundreds or thousands of years, or even longer.
Take the Mechanical Armor Starry Sky, for instance. From invasion to destruction, nearly a thousand years had passed.
Throughout that process, the flaws in the starry sky gradually increased, and one Star Abyss Gate after another appeared.
However, this starry sky was somewhat special. It had been invaded once hundreds of thousands of years ago, though those sages of old had worked hard to resolve that crisis.
Yet the Star Abyss Gates that had once been opened still left traces within the starry sky.
Those traces were all flaws in the starry sky.
That was why the Star Abyss Gates in this starry sky were opening with such astonishing frequency and speed.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, there should only have been one Star Abyss Gate in the starry sky at present, rather than as many as six.
More than ten years had passed since Lu Ye left the starry sky. To cultivators, that was actually a very short time. When he had departed, the strongest group of cultivators in the starry sky had merely been those brought into the Mechanical Armor Starry Sky by the Ghost Sedan. How much could they have grown in ten years? Lu Ye did not know.
Now that he could already sense the Star Abyss Summons, it meant that he only needed to follow the direction from which the summons originated to reach the Star Abyss Gate.
The journey was uneventful. Several months later, as Variegated drew closer and closer to the Star Abyss Gate, Lu Ye began slowing it down, making it easier to dock later.
Yet when Lu Ye was still half a month's journey away