At the edge of the Star Sea.
A deserted, utterly desolate stretch of starry sky.
The Star Sea had boundaries; it was not boundless. The Outer Lands lay along one of its borders.
This place was also at the edge of the Star Sea. Unlike the Outer Lands, however, space here was relatively stable. Still, because it lay on the boundary, not a blade of grass grew in this region, and no living creatures existed here.
The Ancient Fiendish Grounds were often located in boundary regions like this.
There were actually few such Ancient Fiendish Grounds in the Star Sea. After all, what qualified as an Ancient Fiendish Ground? Only a perilous place that had existed before the Origin World could bear that name.
In the lifeless, desolate starry sky.
A woman clad in long white robes, her face cold and stern, suddenly appeared. Her arrival caused no spatial fluctuations, as though she had materialized out of thin air.
Had anyone been there, they would surely have been astonished.
To appear directly within a stretch of space without a sound, causing no spatial fluctuations—even a Nine-Tribulations Sovereign who specialized in the Space Great Dao might not have been able to do it.
And yet.
This woman's aura was utterly ordinary, as though she were nothing more than a common mortal.
This woman was none other than...
Venerable Hun Yan!
Though calling him Venerable Hun Yan was no longer entirely accurate.
"The Blood Spirit Land. Blood spirits, blood spirits..."
Venerable Hun Yan gazed into the distance, his eyes fixed on a stretch of space ahead. It was utterly ordinary, no different from anywhere else.
At that moment, perhaps under the influence of Venerable Hun Yan's gaze, that seemingly ordinary stretch of space slowly began to twist, and then...
A distorted hole