The days that followed went smoothly.
After joining forces with Aekta's squad, the two teams acted as mutual support, covering each other's flanks, and encountered no further setbacks along the way.
They traversed several relatively calm star domains, bypassed a few areas where energy fluctuations were abnormally chaotic, and arrived safely in the depths of the Star Shatterer Belt.
When the legendary Evacuation Point came into view, even the well-traveled Lin Yi could not help but be stunned.
It was a massive white vortex suspended in the center of a gravitational void at the heart of the Star Shatterer Belt. The vortex was formed from pure, gentle, milky-white streams of energy, with iridescent light flowing along its edges. As it rotated slowly, it emitted profound space-time fluctuations.
It looked like a giant, eternally open eye, quietly embedded against the backdrop of the dark starry sky.
Around the vortex, several ships of varying designs hovered at a safe distance; some were in the style of the Spirit Race, others were light-forged shuttles of the Holy Radiance Race, and there were even metal warships of the Human Race.
The Green Spirit and the silver-white shuttle of Aekta's squad came to a halt on the outer perimeter of the vortex.
Lin Yi led Liu Na, Hui Lie, Shi Feng, and Serwilla out of the cabin, and Aekta also emerged with his team members.
Almost simultaneously, several figures flew out from a relatively stable debris platform near the vortex.
They were members of two Pan-Spirit Alliance squads that were resting there and serving as a perimeter guard.
Leading them were a Li Race deity with a dense, heavy aura and a Wing Race female deity with pale cyan energy wings unfurled behind her.
Both radiated the fluctuations of peak Higher Deities and appeared to