Within the Crystal Wall Secret Realm.
In an unknown stretch of stars, Yang Zheng stood in the control room, gazing at the sight before him.
The starfield before him was not entirely dark. It seemed veiled in a thick layer of cosmic dust, with a scattering of stars dotting its dim backdrop.
The light those stars emitted was extremely faint, tinged gray-blue, dark purple, or deathly white. It barely penetrated the heavy dust, tracing only hazy outlines.
There were no dazzling rivers of stars, no brilliant nebulae-only an endless, faded expanse of desolate space, as though time had forgotten it altogether.
"The energy here is so thin!"
Yang Zheng sensed the state of his Internal World. The cosmic energy in this desolate starfield was pitifully sparse, yet unusually violent and impure.
Rumble!
After those ten thousand years under Time Acceleration in the Primal Secret Region, his Internal World had already expanded to nearly a trillion kilometers in diameter, almost reaching its current limit.
Whoosh!
A spaceship appeared. Yang Zheng swiftly entered its control room and activated the large-scale scanner, which soon finished scanning everything within a billion-kilometer radius.
Beep!
No danger detected for now!
The scanning system promptly delivered its report. Within the surrounding billion-kilometer radius, there was nothing but dead, silent space, its energy thin and impure.
"Good. This region is normal for now. The scanner can operate at its maximum range."
The scanner had originally been designed primarily for exploring Cosmic Secret Realms, not for the Outer Domain Battlefield. Its purpose was to let travelers avoid large celestial bodies well in advance while speeding through Cosmic Secret Realms.
Whether there was danger or not, heading straight through empty space was the safest approach.
Whoosh!
The spaceship accelerated to sublight speed, its scanner running at maximum power