Mid-layer of Shattered Star Valley.
The spatial fragments here were several times denser than at the valley entrance, less than twenty feet apart. Some were even embedded together, layers of warped light and shadow piling atop one another, slicing the view ahead into fragmented pieces.
Li Yuan moved through the fragments.
Although Li Yuan did not fear these fragments, running into them would still be troublesome.
Void Domain Profound Mastery continuously scanned the surrounding spatial structure, and every step he took avoided places hiding distorted force.
About three hundred feet ahead, the spatial wall suddenly twisted.
A vortex nearly fifteen feet wide whirled into existence. Gray-white spatial debris was sucked into it, letting out piercing tearing sounds. The vortex's edges expanded and contracted as several nearby spatial fragments were dragged inside, ground to pieces, then spat back out.
A small Spatial Storm was blocking the only passage.
Li Yuan did not stop. He raised his right hand, and the Spatial Severing Technique drew a thin crack that precisely cut into the thinnest point along the vortex's edge. The rotating force was severed by that strike, and the entire storm immediately loosened.
His left hand clenched after it.
A Spatial Restriction Technique descended, freezing the space within thirty feet around the break. Deprived of its core rotational force and blocked by the restricted area, the vortex quickly collapsed into gray-white debris.
The passage was revealed once more.
Li Yuan passed through and continued deeper.
Another hour passed before Void Domain Profound Mastery caught an abnormal movement ahead.
A thousand feet away, a spatial rift was rapidly lengthening. It was already around thirty feet long, its two ends extending outward at tremendous speed. The cutting force at its edges was several times stronger than the fissures near the valley entrance.
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