In the Stillness Realm, on a fog-shrouded grassland.
Mu You raced across the grass at breakneck speed, carrying the little boy in one hand.
Rumbling spread from the distance, and the surrounding scenery began to blur, rippling like water stirred by the wind.
The motionless objects and people in the surrounding space began to distort, as though they were not in a real world, but in a dream.
Mu You knew this was a sign that the Stillness Realm was about to collapse.
With no time to think, he could only go flat out, pushing Crimson Sky to its limit as he became a streak of red lightning and raced toward the mountains ahead.
Running at full speed, he covered the route that had taken nearly an hour on the way there in just a few minutes.
Moments later, Mu You swept like the wind through the open stone gate of World-Creation Mountain, sprinted through the labyrinthine corridors within, and soon found the cave housing the altar.
Barely seconds after Mu You rushed into the cave, the Stillness Realm's collapse reached its limit. The frozen scenes around him shattered like broken mirrors at a visible speed, and energy storms began whipping through the cave.
Mu You shielded himself from the storms with one hand and tossed the unconscious boy toward the center of the formation with the other.
The next instant, a spacetime storm swept over them, engulfing them both completely.
When Mu You found his footing again, the ground beneath him felt soft.
Opening his eyes, he saw the little boy lying nearby. Hazy darkness surrounded them, and a cool breeze blew past. They were no longer in the cave within World-Creation Mountain, but standing in a desert.
Judging by their location, they should have successfully returned to