The void stretched boundlessly, deathly silent and bitterly cold. Piloting the enhanced Primordial Magnetic Void-Piercing Shuttle, Han Li followed the damaged Star Map toward the node closest to Azure Grove, marked with an indistinct rune that Elder Mu Li believed meant "Ancient Teleportation Ruins."
The route marked on the Star Map was no smooth road. During the first few months after leaving Azure Grove, they encountered several violent "void energy tides," avoided a few Stardust Giant Eels prowling the void's "wilderness" with auras no weaker than those of Deity Transformation Stage cultivators, and made a wide detour around a "void vortex" that constantly collapsed inward, devouring everything. Sheltered inside the shuttle, Li Yan and the others relied on Han Li's protection and medicinal pills to sustain themselves. They could only regard the dangers of the void with awe.
That day, the Void-Breaking Shuttle was passing through a relatively calm region of the void dotted with sparse meteorites. The needle of the Primordial Magnetic Star-Attraction Disk trembled slightly, pointing diagonally ahead—the destination was close.
Just as Han Li was about to extend his spiritual sense for a careful inspection, an arrow of highly condensed, dusky energy suddenly shot soundlessly from behind an inconspicuous gray-brown meteorite off to one side! Charged with powerful corrosive and freezing forces, it flew with astonishing speed at a treacherous angle, aimed straight at the shuttle's core!
Han Li had been on guard. Almost the instant the arrow tore through the void, the Primordial Magnetic Tainted-Spirit Shield blazed with dark light and slid sideways to intercept it.
"Sss-!"
The dusky arrow struck the shield, unleashing a ring of dark ice. Black radiance and emerald streams of light rippled violently across the shield's surface, struggling to dissolve the corrosive and freezing forces, while the shield itself hummed beneath