At the edge of the Forgotten Corridor, the Chaos Nebula hung like an eternal gray curtain, shrouding everything in unknown terror.
The Drifting Star Tablet still floated silently, like a mute sentinel bearing witness to the passage of time and the settling of secrets.
Ying Sha had pushed his shadow concealment to its utmost limit.
Like a part of the tablet's shadow itself, he silently circled the ancient ruin, recording every trace of residual energy and every irregularity in the spatial structure.
Yet the "hungry" gaze cast from deep within the Chaos Nebula had not weakened with time. Instead, it had become clearer, closer... more imminent!
That gaze was no longer merely "watching." It was more like a tangible "scan" and "lock-on."
Ying Sha could feel a cold, viscous will filled with inhuman greed, like an invisible spiderweb centered around some unseen point deep within the nebula.
It slowly spread toward the Drifting Star Tablet. This will sought to seep into every corner of space, analyze every form of existence, and search for any "anomaly" or "nourishment."
Clearly, Ying Sha's arrival—or something he carried—had become bait that drew this unknown existence's attention.
I can't stay here any longer... Alarm bells rang wildly in Ying Sha's heart. He decisively stopped his investigation.
He began to withdraw silently, preparing to leave this region first as Ming Xin had instructed and wait for their rendezvous.
However, just as his Shadow Vein slipped away from the outermost shadow zone of the Drifting Star Tablet—
Buzz!
The entire Drifting Star Tablet suddenly... trembled!
It was not a physical shake, but an ancient rune array within it that had lain dormant for countless ages.
Stimulated by the scanning will of that "hungry" gaze, it produced an instinctive, faint stress response!
An exceedingly obscure ripple carrying the