The repaired Primordial Magnetic Void-Piercing Shuttle traveled steadily through the void. Though its dark golden radiance lacked the brilliance of its prime, it possessed a greater measure of restraint and resilience. Inside, Han Li sat cross-legged, regulating his breathing and consolidating his cultivation while devoting a sliver of his attention to sensing the Primordial Magnetic Star-Attraction Disk and correcting their course. Li Yan and the others cultivated on their own. Having endured the tempering of life and death, they understood all the more how precious strength was.
Travel through the void remained monotonous, with danger lurking beneath the surface. They avoided several sudden eruptions of turbulent energy and gave a wide berth to a meteor field shrouded in pink poisonous miasma, where flocks of Void Ghost Face Bats roosted. They also encountered an attack by a small pack of octopus-shaped Stardust Beasts that fed on starlight, which Han Li drove off with thunderous force.
Half a year later.
Scattered grains of fine sand began appearing in the dark void ahead, drifting and flickering with faint fluorescence of various colors. The farther they traveled, the more numerous the grains became, gradually gathering into dreamlike streams of luminous sand that flowed slowly through space. The sand came in a dazzling array of colors-red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet. Some grains even shifted constantly between colors, giving off a gentle glow that illuminated the formerly deathly void like a flowing river of stars, breathtaking in its beauty.
The needle of the Primordial Magnetic Star-Attraction Disk pointed steadily toward the region where the luminous sand was densest. There lay the heart of the Firefly Sand Sea.
Han Li guided the Void-Breaking Shuttle cautiously into the sea of luminous sand. The grains brushed against the spiritual light surrounding its hull with soft rustling