Chu Ming's spirits lifted, and he charged toward the light with all his strength.
Splash—!
It felt as though he had burst through the surface of water.
Blazing sunlight replaced the eerie shifting lights of the corridor, and fresh air carrying the faint spiritual essence of the stars flooded into his lungs.
Beneath his feet was a solid, faintly scorching... meteorite surface?
Chu Ming steadied himself, staggered a few steps, and immediately looked around.
They had landed on a massive meteorite floating in the void.
Not far away, Qingwei supported the unconscious Thunder Splendor and looked anxiously toward him.
Su Li was kneeling on one knee nearby, using what little strength she had left to set up a simple concealment formation.
Farther away lay the familiar backdrop of the starry sky, along with... that beautiful star made up of countless floating islands and rainbow bridges: Ethereal Star. They had successfully escaped the Void Realm Corridor and returned to the void beyond Ethereal Star!
"We made it..." Dao Master Qingwei let out a long breath, nearly collapsing from exhaustion.
Su Li, too, wore an expression of immense relief, but her face abruptly changed as she looked in the direction from which they had emerged.
There, in the region of the Shattered Star Sea where the corridor's entrance had once been, a horrifying sight was unfolding.
Space shattered like broken glass, vast swaths collapsing and vanishing to form an ever-expanding black void that devoured everything. Violent energy currents erupted from its edges, sweeping in nearby meteorites, dust, and even light itself.
The Void Realm Corridor was completely collapsing, disappearing.
And at the edge of that collapse, several bedraggled figures had just rushed out as well.
They were none other than the Burning Flame Old Ancestor, the Nether Blood True Lord, and the