Between Heavenly Emperor Ancient Star and Tianlan Planet lay an endless sea of stars, a span ordinary cultivators could hardly cross even if they exhausted their entire lives.
But Li Yunjing's cultivation had now advanced greatly, and he also possessed a sharp tool for starry-sky travel like the Sky Barrier Warship, as well as several life-saving Great Teleportation Talismans. Crossing the sea of stars was no longer difficult.
Leaving directly from inside Heavenly Emperor Ancient Star through a large-scale teleportation array would make too large a target and expose him all too easily.
It would also make it easy for others to surround him!
He decided to enter outer space, then rely on the speed and concealment abilities of the Sky Patrol Warship to force his way through any starry-sky blockade the Heavenly Court might have set up.
He restrained his aura, turned into an inconspicuous streak of escape light, and sped toward the heights of the firmament.
The higher he flew, the thinner the spiritual energy became, and the keener the Gale Wind, but to Li Yunjing, at the peak of the third heaven of Spirit Transformation, it posed no real hindrance.
Passing through the heavy cloud layers and crossing the nine heavens' Gale Wind layer, his vision suddenly opened wide. Before him was an endless dark void, dotted with countless stars.
Looking back, Heavenly Emperor Ancient Star was like a colossal, multicolored jewel, suspended amid the sea of stars.
However, in this seemingly silent void, Li Yunjing keenly sensed several discordant energy fluctuations.
Those were formation nodes the Heavenly Court had laid out in the starry sky for monitoring and blockade—as well as outposts!
Roughly tens of thousands of li ahead of him stood a small man-made star fortress, like a metal beehive. Runes flowed across its surface,