In the Boundless Star Sea, two trajectories raced away from each other, tracing utterly different arcs of fate.
At the Edge of the Forgotten Corridor, Shadows Crept Forward
Ying Sha completely merged into the profound darkness of the cosmic backdrop. No longer relying on any physical form of flight, he transformed himself into a flowing "Shadow Vein."
Following the guidance of the Star Chart Ming Xin had given him, he traveled toward the desolate star region marked as the boundary of the "Forgotten Corridor."
The contents of the Deduction Jade Slip Ming Xin had given him were vast. For the moment, he could only comprehend the parts concerning how to handle basic Spacetime Folds and Energy Turbulence.
Even so, it gave him a clearer understanding of the dangers of this journey.
Along the way, the starry sky gradually became strange. The stars grew sparse, their light dimmed, and space was no longer smooth.
Instead, it was covered in tiny folds like ripples on water. Occasionally, miniature spacetime vortices of shifting colors, leading who knew where, would silently appear and vanish.
He kept Ming Xin's warning firmly in mind. He would not touch any unknown phenomenon, traveling only along the relatively "calm" route that had been deduced.
Shadow Power displayed a unique advantage here. Those unstable spatial folds and energy torrents seemed to have less effect within the "layers" of shadow.
Like a fish weaving through rock crevices at the bottom of a raging river, he moved cautiously and swiftly.
Several days later, an even more desolate and "silent" star region entered his senses.
The "silence" here was not the absence of sound, but a sense of emptiness, as though even "existence" itself had been diluted.
Starlight twisted and stretched here like the sighs of the dying. In the distance, he