Ji Yuan had meant to use Lightning-Chaser several times in succession, leave Pagoda Mountain, return to the Core Area, then activate the Golden Ghost Token to get back to the Inner Domain and have the Ghost Envoy send him out.
Without a Nascent Soul cultivator protecting him, he dared not linger on Pagoda Mountain, where such cultivators were everywhere.
Having a trump card was one thing. Running wild just because he had one was another.
That was how a man ended up dead without even knowing what had killed him.
Ji Yuan had used Lightning-Chaser only once. Ordinarily, he should still have been somewhere within Pagoda Mountain, at least drifting in midair.
But now?
He found himself inside a vast black cavern.
The opening lay before him. Above and behind him was nothing but unfamiliar black stone that seemed to be all of one piece.
Startled, Ji Yuan immediately sent out his Divine Sense to probe in every direction.
Only then did he discover—this was no cavern at all!
Within his Sea of Consciousness appeared two enormous, pitch-black spinning wheels. He was inside the one on the left.
As he gazed at the black wheel, which measured dozens of miles across, a name sprang unbidden to mind.
Star-Treading Wheel!
"Damn it, don't tell me I've actually ended up on the Star-Treading Wheel. Was it because I shouted 'Lightning-Chaser'? The two share an origin, so it makes sense that they'd attract each other, but—but isn't this Star-Treading Wheel a little too big?"
"But if the Star-Treading Wheel summoned me here, how am I supposed to take it away?"
As Ji Yuan pondered this, he noticed the wisp of energy beside him.
Or rather, Lightning-Chasing Cloud had moved on its own.
Just as it had when he first saw it, the cloud