"Th-That was... what!?"
"Could that have been... that dragon from before?"
The two stared at each other blankly, their eyes filled with horror.
Evil Wing swore this was the most brutal, savage, and breathtaking way it had ever seen to open a passage.
Shura had forcibly carved a straight path through the vast, boundless black storm with its own body.
A gigantic crimson lotus bloomed, and at its very center...
All obstructions were completely blasted through in a single strike.
What could possibly be more thrilling than witnessing this with its own eyes?
Of course, nothing!
Evil Wing was driven mad with excitement. It abruptly raised its head, opened its dragon maw wide, and spewed blazing flames from its throat.
Its wings spread wide as it surged forward at high speed, chasing the figure that made it submit and left it breathless.
"Open!"
"Open!"
"----Open!"
Wave after wave of increasingly violent firestorms swept outward in every direction.
The invisible barriers before Shura shattered one after another.
Countless twisted swathes of black were torn apart and vaporized before Mu Fan's eyes.
Violent jolts continuously shook Shura's frame, while a fine mist of sweat kept rising from Mu Fan's body.
After several seconds—or perhaps more than ten—Mu Fan suddenly felt his entire body lighten as all resistance conveyed by Shura vanished at once.
The boundless darkness before him disappeared in an instant.
The familiar, deep, black-bright universe appeared before him once more.
Yet the scene here was far more beautiful than the one outside.
Eight planets of varying sizes and colors quietly revolved around a blazing star.
Within Shura's visual acquisition system, a star map shrunken countless times silently displayed the beauty of this corner of the universe.
"Roar~~ Roar roar roar!"
Clusters of flames exploded one after another behind