Lu Ye had been in seclusion for three months. Upon emerging, he only hurriedly met with Si Shengya and the others in the Phoenix Nest, exchanged a few words, then swiftly departed.
After leaving the Phoenix Nest by no more than a million li, he halted and looked ahead.
The Void before him seemed entirely normal, but upon closer inspection, one could make out a tiny black line stretching across it, so faint it was almost impossible to notice.
The black line before him was no more than ten li long, winding and crooked, like a strand of hair left behind by some colossal creature.
But it was no hair at all. It was a Void rift.
The outer regions of the Phoenix Nest were littered with Void rifts. This was no secret throughout the Star Abyss; any cultivator with even a little common sense knew it.
Lu Ye had naturally heard of it long ago, but although he had entered and left the Phoenix Nest many times, he had never explored its surroundings.
This was the first time he had seen a Void rift like this.
A rift like this was simply like an incomparably sharp blade. Should someone of insufficient cultivation or strength pass by carelessly, they could easily be injured—or die on the spot.
Lu Ye merely glanced at it before sidestepping through.
The farther he went, the more densely distributed the Void rifts like the one he had just seen became. They were no longer confined to hair-thin strands; more of them stretched across the space like ravines.
From afar, this region resembled a battlefield left behind after a great war, filled everywhere with crisscrossing ravines.
The Void itself was even distorted, flowing about like water, fantastical beyond measure.
At first, Lu Ye could move without