The instant the compass was taken out!
Rumble—!
The Starry Sky Coffin seemed to have fulfilled its final mission. Its lid let out a deep roar, as though pushed by an invisible hand, and slammed shut with the same silky smoothness with which it had opened, only far more urgently! It sealed without the slightest gap!
Immediately afterward, the entire coffin erupted with one final burst of incomparably brilliant starlight. Then, as though its reason for existing had been fulfilled, it transformed into countless dazzling motes of light that drifted through the air like fireflies on a summer night, slowly fading before Gu Sheng's eyes until they finally returned to nothingness, as if they had never existed.
The entire process was astonishingly fast. From the moment Gu Sheng obtained the compass to the coffin's disappearance, only two or three breaths had passed.
Gu Sheng held the Fate Compass, which still carried a trace of chill, while his sharp gaze swept across the spot where the coffin had vanished.
He keenly sensed that this Fate Weaver likely harbored other secrets unknown to the world. It was definitely far more than a mere inheritance.
The condition of that corpse, the strange voice, the final warning... all of it was deeply suspicious.
But at this moment, he cared more about the opportunity now in his hands.
"Fate Compass... the Way of the Fate Weaver..."
Gu Sheng felt the profound power within the compass, as though it could peer into the tracks of fate itself, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.
"My path toward Dao Fusion is only one step away. If I can initially integrate the Way of the Fate Weaver here, perhaps... I can directly break through within this Golden Wing Ridge secret realm and advance into the Sect Realm!"
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