Meteorite Belt.
After the Heavenly Ruins City Lord cut down the shockwave with a single sword strike and personally entered Chaos Space, the crisis in the Heavenly Ruins was all but over.
Many people relaxed.
Of the Azure Flame Sect's Inner Disciples, some were outside the Meteorite Belt, while others remained within it.
Qi Long and Ji Ziqi were at the very outer edge of the Meteorite Belt.
At that moment.
Qi Long and Ji Ziqi gazed at the dazzling sphere of white light in the distance, their expressions deeply conflicted and tinged with grief.
That sphere marked Qin Hao's position.
Qi Long and Ji Ziqi fell silent.
They knew Qin Hao was dead.
Though they found it terribly hard to accept, they had no choice but to face the truth.
Grief welled up in both of them.
Qin Hao had died today. Next time, it might be them.
The Star Sea was fraught with danger. No one could say when they might fall.
Hum!
Bang!
Just then, a faint sound rang out, piercingly clear in the starry sky.
"Huh?" Ji Ziqi had kept her eyes on the sphere of white light. Surprise crossed her face.
In the distance, the sphere slowly faded away, then vanished altogether.
In its place, Qin Hao's figure came into view.
"What?"
Ji Ziqi froze, then said with a surge of delight, "Qin Hao isn't dead!"
"Qi Long, look! Qin Hao isn't dead!" she cried.
"Not dead?"
"How is that possible?"
Qi Long instinctively objected at the sound of her voice, even as he looked up. The sight made his eyes widen and his jaw drop, as though an egg could fit in his mouth.
"Qin... Qin Hao?"
"He really isn't dead!"
Astonishment filled Qi Long's voice.
There, in the distant starry sky, Qin Hao