Deep in the darkness, a speck of golden light flickered.
Bai Jin raised his right hand. A soft golden feather lay in his palm. Qian Renxue had given it to him before leaving Heaven Dou City, and a wisp of pure Angel Soul Power lingered within it.
Now that wisp of Soul Power was growing hot.
"Found you."
The Fifth Soul Ring lit up.
Boundless Passage activated, and Bai Jin stepped into the darkness.
The surrounding space resembled countless sheets of thin paper pressed tightly together, each reflecting a different scene. Some showed the sunlit Star Dou Forest, others a shattered Valley, while a few held nothing but pure Void.
The Rift-Splitting Silverwing Beast had layered these spaces together to hide its lair.
Bai Jin followed the golden feather's aura. With every step, more than a dozen layers of space swept past him. The Six Eyes broke the Soul Power traces into fine lines, and Void Anchors pinned themselves into nodes along his route, leaving him a way back that would not disappear.
On his thirty-seventh step, a dull impact sounded ahead.
Boom!
Golden flames lit up a silver-white lair.
Three spatial chains bound Qian Renxue's wrists and six wings. The Angel Holy Sword stood planted beside her feet. The wound on her left shoulder, only recently healed, had split open again, and blood ran up the chain.
The Rift-Splitting Silverwing Beast crouched before her.
The holy sword had already blinded its left eye, and a large patch of feathers had fallen from the base of its right wing. Now it studied Qian Renxue with its remaining eye. An old wound on its abdomen opened and closed as silver light burrowed into her body, trying to strip the divine power from her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
Qian Renxue gritted her