Futuo had thought he had successfully passed the scrutiny of the four guides.
All he had needed to do afterward was join this neutral faction, cultivate quietly and slowly, and use the advantage of having fused with Cui Shenyoo's divided soul to steadily build up his foundation and grow within the Void Realm.
Yet for all his calculations, he had never imagined that Zhuang Xuanji's reach within the Void Realm had become so all-encompassing.
Before he could truly join them, she had arrived in this guiding space ahead of time and intercepted him.
Now that Zhuang Xuanji held him in the palm of her hand, Futuo's heart churned, yet there was truly nothing he could do. The instant her eyes fixed upon him, he could not even summon the thought of taking his own life on the spot.
That meant the lifeline of his entire Dao path was now completely in her control. Whether he lived or died was no longer up to him.
Zhuang Xuanji's flight through the void lasted roughly an hour.
When the rushing scenery around them finally steadied once more, Futuo clearly saw what lay before him.
Zhuang Xuanji had brought him to a palace floating above a certain nebula.
The vast sea of nebulae below, seemingly boundless, was even more expansive than the galaxy formed by all four cultivators in the guiding space combined.
And the way Zhuang Xuanji entered the palace afterward made Futuo's heart pound in terror once again.
She merely raised a hand and beckoned, directly warping the space of this realm. She then condensed the spatial power squeezed from it into a single point and flicked her finger, blasting the palace's main gates wide open in an instant.
Setting aside how many advanced applications of spatial Daoist Magic had been fused