Mu Fan only felt a searing heat burning within him, yet for some reason, tears flowed uncontrollably down his face...
For no apparent reason, he could clearly feel Asura's turbulent, blazing emotions, without the slightest trace of sorrow. Yet why was his body beyond his control?
There could only be one explanation for this: something had happened to Asura!
"Pres...ence..."
"...A familiar presence!"
Asura's voice exploded beside his ears like rolling thunder.
"What presence?!"
Mu Fan endured the inexplicable overflow of Asura's energy. The boundless pressure made his bones and muscles crackle.
"Qi's presence... There is no mistake..."
"After he was lost in the Ancient Ruins... his final presence..."
Asura's voice made Mu Fan feel as though his body were about to burn to ashes.
Yet Mu Fan's mind seemed to plunge suddenly into icy water, sending a shiver through him.
"What did you say?!"
"...Father?! You sensed my father's presence!"
Even a body that had never trembled through countless grievous wounds began shaking uncontrollably at this moment.
Asura seemed to fall silent, as though thinking and confirming it.
But soon, Asura's resolute voice rang out, carrying its usual fierce and decisive killing intent.
"It is... Qi!"
"And... the Great Central Emperor."
"The Great Central Emperor left... a slash mark on that warship!" Asura suddenly pointed the Blood Hell Blade toward the center of the Emperor-class Warship [Azure Sky Envoy], where the armor appeared especially thick.
It seemed to have been reinforced several times over its original foundation.
But only when Asura's long blade pointed there did Mu Fan realize...
A stream of slowly flowing black mist lay across the central armor, like a nebula, possessing a sinister sort of beauty.
That blackness was not decoration at all.
It was clearly a narrow... Space Fissure!
A Space Fissure permanently solidified