Contrary to the white mist that had covered his face, the first thing Lin Yuan saw was pitch-black darkness.
Then vast swaths of starlight lit up, illuminating his surroundings.
"Is this... the Star Sea?"
With his wealth of experience, Lin Yuan recognized the scene before him at a glance.
He also sensed that he had not truly arrived in the Star Sea. The scene before him was a "diagram" the Time Maze was showing him.
Clearly, someone had deliberately used a Time Maze to create this "Island of Beginning and End," and instilled key information into the Time Maze within the island.
A Time Maze was, in essence, dissipated Power of Time, making it perfectly suited to carrying information like this.
Once Lin Yuan understood how it worked, he immediately focused and began carefully observing the scene before him.
He understood that the message the island's creator wanted to convey lay within it.
Sure enough, before long, the scene before him changed.
A gray, hazy mass appeared in the Star Sea, then pounced on a nearby star.
That star promptly went dark.
The gray mass immediately pounced on the next star.
Like Pac-Man, the gray mass devoured vast swaths of stars in the Star Sea, leaving only a handful of planets in the once-thriving Star Sea.
And the gray mass continued devouring new stars.
This time, however, it seemed to encounter some resistance. After the new star was swallowed, it did not immediately go dark, but continued struggling to shine.
In the end, however, its light still faded.
But the gray mass also seemed to have suffered a heavy blow, curling into a tiny dot.
After a while, the tiny dot stirred again, spewing out large quantities of indescribable seawater and creating a chaotic planet composed of chaotic seawater where