Chapter 2212: Auxiliary Spirit World and the Seven Essence Heavenly Field

The entrance to the void passage leading from the Illusory Sea of Stars to the Void Mirage of the Chaotic Sea of Stars turned out to be under his nose!

This discovery shocked Shang Xia far more than he expected, and it made him abruptly realize how close the Star Origin Lord’s clone, the Star River Stowaway, and the Illusory Sea of Stars had come to success. They had almost finished hiding and transporting an entire Star Region.

His earlier attempt to strike the Star Origin Lord’s Fate Star with his Dipper Star Formation had been pure luck, an act done only because he could not locate the clone after searching one Heavenly Field after another.

But even so, the Star Origin Lord’s clone had still escaped under his nose, and even managed to bring an Essence World into the void passage.

Yes. It was the very same Essence World from the Heavenly Field he had shattered earlier.

Under Shang Xia’s relentless pursuit, the clone had reversed course and chosen to merge with a broken Essence World, using it to slip away. Perhaps that realm, being heavily damaged, was the easiest to move, and thus the clone had little choice but to seize it in order to retreat back into the Chaotic Sea of Stars.

Shang Xia immediately abandoned all thought of fighting the Star River Stowaway and the others. He turned straight toward the newly revealed void passage.

Naturally, Dong Jin and several Sages would not let him leave freely. They attacked at once to block his path.

But Shang Xia’s mind was not on them anymore, not even on the Star Origin Lord’s clone or the Essence World that had vanished into the passage.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

At the very instant the passage connecting the Star Fields reopened, he instead attempted something far more critical. He tried to reestablish contact with his External Avatar stationed in the Chaotic Sea of Stars.

The result was grim.

When Shang Xia set out, his External Avatar who returned to the Heaven Observation Star Region had two primary duties. The first was to guard the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field. The second was to monitor the Void Mirage and also watch over the recovering Essence Mu World.

Now the Void Mirage’ void passage had been violently opened, not from the Illusory Sea of Stars but from the other side meant that the seal on the Void Mirage had been broken from within the Chaotic Sea of Stars.

Such a seal could not have been destroyed quietly. A battle must have erupted beforehand.

Shang Xia’s External Avatar had almost certainly been involved.

Now... Shang Xia sensed almost nothing from his External Avatar, only the faintest, near-disappearing aura.

Setting aside the weakening effect of the void passage that connected both Star Fields, such a weak connection meant one of two things. His External Avatar had been gravely injured, his soul nearly destroyed, or he was at a distance impossibly far away from him.

Shang Xia considered the second possibility nearly impossible.

That meant that a catastrophic change had erupted inside the Heaven Observation Star Region, a disaster so extreme that even his External Avatar, whose strength rivaled that of a grand completion stage Sage, had been unable to stop it.

Was it the Star Origin Lord’s true body who personally intervened? Or was it the intrusion of a force from outside the Heaven Observation Star Region?

Shang Xia was confident in his External Avatar’s combat strength. No combination of the local Sages of the Star Region could injure him so gravely. None of them would ever band together against him anyway.

Beyond his External Avatar itself, he feared most for the safety of the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field.

Kou Chongxue was no longer present. The Heavenly Field was effectively undefended.

If the force that broke the Void Mirage' seal turned its attention toward the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field, and Shang Xia’s External Avatar had already been severely wounded, the Heavenly Field might very well be breached.

Realizing what might have happened, Shang Xia did not hesitate. He charged toward the void passage, not to chase a foe, but to return to the Heaven Observation Star Region as fast as possible.

When the Illusory Sea of Stars’ Sages tried to intercept him, they were met with Shang Xia’s almost unrestrained might.

He unleashed Star Shifting Constellation Transformation, then followed immediately with a Four Constellation Samsara Blade.

The power of his martial intent had already reached a horrifying level. In the past, his Four Constellation Samsara Blade wasn’t too scary. After he mastered the power of space and time, the blade contained the power to shear away one’s life force.

Two divine abilities saturated with the power of space and time exploded. Even Dong Jin, following close behind aboard his Eternal Golden Boat, sucked in a sharp breath.

His vessel could protect him from one of those martial intents, but not two in succession.

The experts of the Illusory Sea of Stars sensed the danger instantly. They abandoned pursuit at once, retreating to minimize the erosion of the temporal blade. Even so, they still felt their vitality being carved away. In an instant, they each lost between half a year and five years of lifespan.

And that was with perfect reaction and immediate withdrawal. Had they lingered, the damage would have been far worse.

All they could do was watch helplessly as Shang Xia approached the void passage and disappeared into it.

A few of them hesitated about whether they should follow, but Dong Jin did not.

The Eternal Golden Boat shot into the passage without pause.

He knew what was going on. The Sages of the Illusory Sea of Stars could hesitate, but he could not.

He understood what it meant to stand at the threshold of the Eighth Order when the Chaotic Sea of Stars finished integrating the eight Star Fields. He would not miss this opportunity, not even if Shang Xia himself waited on the other side.

Not long after Dong Jin entered the passage, several other Sages mustered their courage and followed. Shortly after that, one or two Heavenly Fields also plunged into the void passage, one after another.