Ten Sites Stabilized

Tianheng Domain, outskirts of Shattered Star Valley.

An evasion light swept in from the northeast and landed at the edge of the plateau several miles outside the valley entrance.

Li Yuan withdrew his evasion light, used Ghostly Concealment to suppress his Nascent Soul aura, changed his face with Phantom Mask Disguise, and kept his cultivation at Late Golden Core Stage.

The rift still lay stretched across the land ahead, several miles wide and extending beyond the limits of sight in both directions. Countless spatial fragments floated within it, while light and shadow warped and layered over one another along its edges.

Void Domain Profound Mastery operated on its own, bringing the spatial structure within several hundred zhang of the valley entrance into his consciousness sea. Compared with his last visit, the spatial fluctuations on the outskirts had become far more active. Several rifts had visibly lengthened, and two of them had already extended from within the valley into the plateau's rocky strata.

A streak of evasion light descended a hundred zhang to the right of the valley entrance.

Li Yuan recognized the aura.

Liu Qingyang.

An Inner Disciple of the Heavenly Balance Sect, Nascent Soul Early Stage. Last time, in the Middle Layer of Shattered Star Valley, Liu Qingyang's left arm had been caught in a Spatial Rift. Li Yuan had saved him once with the Spatial Imprisonment Technique.

Liu Qingyang recognized Li Yuan as well. He strode forward and cupped his hands. "Fellow Daoist, you've come again."

"Just taking a look around Shattered Star Valley," Li Yuan said.

Liu Qingyang looked toward the several rifts outside the valley entrance, his brows knitting together.

"Your timing is perfect, Fellow Daoist. These rifts around the valley entrance have been expanding fiercely of late. The sect wishes to find a spatial talisman