Chapter 2107: Adventure Time

"Could it be that beneath this fragile void lay the hidden void streams... The reason I can’t track the origin of the void currents is that it never settled in a fixed location?”

Shang Xia increasingly cast suspicious glances at the recovering void.

Before finding the space where the Essence Zhen Heavenly Field once existed, he had gone to the spot where the origin of the void currents was. However, he discovered it had long vanished when he arrived.

According to the information he had obtained from Mei Jingya, the origin of the void currents had always been unstable. Only after their Star Region established a defense system centered on their Heavenly Fields had they finally managed to lock it down near the Essence Zhen Heavenly Field.

Unfortunately, after the Essence Zhen Heavenly Field collapsed, their defense system fractured, and the origin of the void currents shifted again.

Even so, no other Heavenly Field reported its reappearance.

Well... Unless it had hidden itself the instant it reemerged!

Then came another problem... If the origin of the void currents had disappeared, why was Rong Ding and the others pressing Mei Jingya to push her Essence Mu World to the original position of the Essence Zhen Heavenly Field?

Recalling the words of the foreign expert he captured from the Gathered Sea of Stars, who said that the Essence Mu World’s fate was to be cast into the origin of the void currents, Shang Xia concluded that it still lay near its original position.

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Even after seven days exploring the fragile space, he found no trace of the void current’s origins... Moreover, the space was too unstable for him to probe recklessly.

A careless move could be dangerous and, worse, could draw the attention of the Sages of the Towering Star Region.

Fortunately, Shang Xia had never been careless. He kept his aura suppressed and his presence hidden at all times, though it slowed his pace of discovery.

He was no fool. He knew that the entire Towering Star Region should be searching for him after the stunt Mei Jingya pulled. The moment he was discovered, he might face a dozen or more Sages at once.

In any case, he had to locate the void current’s origins. It was the key to harvesting enough origin qi from the Gathered Sea of Stars for his rank eight advancement formula.

"If it really lies beneath this region of fragile void, not only will the Sages of the Towering Star Region be watching closely... The experts of the Gathered Sea of Stars will surely have their on this place!”

Pausing, Shang Xia started to consider his next step.

"The news of that Sage who was killed at the Essence Mu World must have spread by now. Both the Gathered Sea of Stars and the Towering Star Region will definitely react. But how...?”

He thought of reaching out to Mei Jingya, but her Essence Mu World was surely under tight surveillance. Any transmission would be intercepted outside its barrier. It might even cause his location to be leaked.

If a dozen Sages searched together, no concealment would save him.

"So... I have to wait till the Essence Mu World is moved here before making my move?” Shang Xia frowned. He disliked waiting and relying on unknown factors.

Then, another thought struck him. "If the void current’s origin lies here, how did that expert from the Gathered Sea of Stars reach the Essence Mu World? And since the Sages of the Towering Star Region and the Gathered Sea of Stars clearly had tacit agreements with each other, how did they make contact?"

Staring at the fragile void before him, he became certain. There were definitely hidden passages linking the Towering Star Region and the origin of the void currents. Moreover, those were likely old channels carved by the void currents themselves.

With that, Shang Xia returned to the place that had once held the void currents’ origin and carved through layer after layer of void. Before long, he indeed found scars of chaos erosion.

Following them, he found a crude yet stable void passage through the recovering space. There, he saw it leading down many paths.

There was only one question left... There were many paths, but which would lead him to the origin of the void currents?

That was where the wisp of preserved void currents came in. It finally served its purpose as it pointed to one of them. After it did, it finally dissipated.

This time, Shang Xia did not hesitate. He rushed down the direction it pointed to.

As he ventured deeper, the space around him showed greater signs of corrosion. However, the ability of the void to mend itself was just as strong, which was why the spatial passages posed little risk of collapsing as he pushed forward.

The only thing that worried him was whether the void ripples he caused might be noticed by others.

To deal with it, he unleashed his inner qi without restraint, laying down restrictions as he went, hollowing out the void bit by bit.

It cost him a lot of inner qi and slowed his progress, but it minimized his chances of being exposed.

Advancing in bursts, he took a short break to recover whenever he ran low on inner qi. After nearly a month, he finally arrived at the spot where the Essence Zhen Heavenly Field once stood.

Tearing through one last fragile layer of space, the void before him opened up into a vast expanse that looked like a hidden region. It stretched further than his divine soul could reach, and from the fractured space he detected, he could tell that the region was far from safe.

Rather than stepping into it immediately, Shang Xia stopped and stared at the stretch of space before him. No one knew what he was thinking of as a strange light flickered in his eyes.

After some time had passed, his expression changed slightly. Reaching out, he made a slight gesture as he pulled a region of fractured space over with Dipper Guidance. He used it to seal the path he had taken, hiding his presence within.

Only then was he satisfied.

Once he was done, a strange shuttle emerged and rushed through a secret region after the time it took to boil a pot of tea. As it tore through the space, spatial cracks and fractures left dense marks on its hull.

When the shuttle vanished from his sight, Shang Xia crushed the concealment he had been using and stared in the direction the shuttle had gone. Turning into a streak of starlight, he instantly gave chase.