Wei Wuyin invoked his True Void Dragon Bloodline, invigorating his body as a myriad of transformations began to take place. With the hexagonal grey scales, as enchantingly beautiful and perfectly flexible as always, forming over his skin, he began to exude a heavy draconic aura.
Wen Mingna's heart began to pound intensely before the sheer quality of physical energy emanated from Wei Wuyin's every breath. It was harrowing, like a raging tempest was stored within his body, enough to engulf worlds upon worlds. Yet she didn't retreat in the face of this torrential aura but stayed close, and she didn't hesitate or have any misgivings in physical contact.
She directly hugged Wei Wuyin's chest from the front, holding him tightly and nestling her head on his chest. She interlocked her fingers together around his waist and pressed her feet atop Wei Wuyin's. Her eyes closed shut, even tighter than Wei Wuyin's.
Seeing her act without any hesitation and fully following his orders without holding anything back, Wei Wuyin was astonished. He looked at Wen Mingna's luscious short-brown hair, styled with golden highlights, he was unable to hold back a warm smile. An urge to caress her head swelled within him and an average man might hold himself back, but Wei Wuyin unhesitatingly gave her head a soft rub, ruffling her hair slightly.
She nestled further, her eyes even tighter than before. It was quite cute, but Wei Wuyin was unable to tell if she took this as a sign of him beginning whatever he intended to do. He was unsure if she knew of his abilities or if she just wholeheartedly trusted him at this point.
"I like her," Ori commented.
"Tch," King added, but the tone was agreeable.
"..." Kratos was intensely focused, so it could not give its opinion. At the moment, it was gathering a tremendous amount of bloodline energies and void energies in preparation.
"You should learn why she's like this," Eden wisely said. Wen Mingna was willing to give up her life for Wei Wuyin, which was exceptional, but despite searching their memories, there was no prompt to indicate that level of willingness. In a way, it seemed to have been born out of nowhere. This brought a bit of suspicion towards Wen Mingna's goal.
"I know why," Wei Wuyin said. He didn't explain, but Eden's Astral Form's roots quivered for a brief moment, and then it heaved a relieved sigh within his Sea of Consciousness.
No longer dwelling on this topic, Wei Wuyin drew upon Kratos' gathered power and tapped into his Infinite Void Wings! They had erupted outwards but only reached two meters in length, their shortest ever. But if one saw them, they would realize that they were incredibly solid and condensed, quivering from time to time.
Wei Wuyin had poured a tremendous amount of energy into manifesting these wings! Despite their size, they were the strongest Infinite Void Wings manifested to date, even greater than when he pulled along an entire continent and its billions of lives through the Void!
Wei Wuyin wrapped his arms around Wen Mingna's back, tugging her closer. He had no inappropriate thoughts, merely concerned about her safety. While he had traveled the Void a few times before and once with an entire continent, he felt this might be an entirely different experience. The Earth-Sky-Heaven Mystic Formation might not directly block off the Void, but that didn't mean it didn't hinder interactions with space in general.
Wei Wuyin's wings unfurled, shaking fiercely, before they hugged the two's bodies, and without moving, the three, Wei Wuyin, Wen Mingna, and Bai Lin began to warp and distort, and without warning, they vanished!
Three seconds prior.
Outside of the bubble that was the Sky Shell Formation, a grey-scaled figure with two wings holding a gorgeous woman emerged out of nowhere, as if spewed out by the universe without any indication. They were two hundred thousand miles away from the Everlore Domain's protective bubble, firmly within the Elementus Domain's western region.
Wei Wuyin held onto Wen Mingna gingerly, but his veins and arteries were protruding, and his face seemed to become an unusual red.
"Don't open your eyes!" Wei Wuyin shouted violently, borderline reaching a bestial roar of savage proportions. Its volume was fueled by pain and chaos, distorted and twisted in tone.
Wen Mingna felt something was wrong, her Fate Light Astral Soul was trembling hectically, and it seemed to be attempting to implode. The pain and attempt were suppressed by Wei Wuyin's energies that flooded into her in outrageous amounts. She kept her eyes closed; a wisp of fear engulfing her heart.
She wasn't easy to scare, but she felt terrified.
Bai Lin had listened without needing to be reminded, shutting her eyes completely, feeling the strange, horrifying feeling sweep across her. If it wasn't for Wei Wuyin's energies flooding into her also, she would've cried out in terror.
Wei Wuyin's eyes couldn't remain closed, and his eyelids shot open as he lifted his head and unleashed a draconic roar! Space and time seemed to ripple endlessly, reaching an untold distance. In a matter of mere moments, the ripple traversed a million miles.
Two seconds prior.
Wei Wuyin caressed Wen Mingna's head. Abruptly, his head jolted upwards, and his body quivered. A sensation of needing to begin the process surged through his heart. With a thought, he initiated it. With his wings formed around himself and Wen Mingna, he vanished.
Present time.
Wei Wuyin's entire body quivered so intensely that Wen Mingna felt that she was a small boat in a merciless oceanic storm, but the boat remained steady and firm, ensuring her a safe journey. She felt a sensation of safety that astonished her, and her head nestled deeper, her hands clutched tighter, and she scrunched her expression tensely.
Wei Wuyin's eyes spewed out large amounts of spiritual light, releasing two rays of brilliant, scintillating light that even those at the edges of the Elementus Domain could faintly see. He was like a lighthouse in the middle of the Dark Void.
"Argh!" With an anguished shout, he closed his leaking eyes with all his might. The edges of his eyes and eyelids were seemingly scorched by a cyan-colored ray of heat, the sides intensely scrambled, and bits of light leaked outwards.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Ori was the first to fire this question out, absolutely confused by what just happened. For a moment, it felt as if it wanted to implode on itself. That some unfathomably vast and ancient law in the world didn't want it to exist, and it wasn't the Heavenly Daos!
"...Did we just?" King questioned as wisps of saber light swirled around Wei Wuyin protectively, unleashing a faint aura of pure annihilation power. If anything approached, be it Heavenly Daos or that strange law, it would challenge it with its edge!
"I felt myself," Eden stated eerily, clearly shaken.
They all were.
Kratos heaved a heavy sigh of satisfied relief, exhausted to its limits. At the moment, Wei Wuyin's heartbeat was extremely slow and weak. But besides that, his innate energies and astral forces were completely untouched, as if he hadn't used any energy. He thought Kratos would exhaust its bloodline source, but it hadn't. In fact, it didn't seem like it even used any of its energies or forces, just its Astral Form within his heart was weakened. It was strange because he clearly remembered pouring energy into Wen Mingna and Bai Lin.
"What the hell was that?!" Wei Wuyin breathily questioned. He felt as if he had traversed the Void, just like the other times, but this was different.
Kratos' voice was weak, but it softly explained: "I am the Void!" And yet again, it failed to do so with any sense. However, Eden came to the rescue.
"I felt another me, and then I felt as if something wanted me not to exist. As if I was an inconsistent part of the world, an impurity that needed to be refined." The Alchemic Dao clearly served as its explanatory reference, but it was still unclear.
"I felt it too," King agreed.
"DID WE JUST TRAVEL THROUGH TIME!?! THAT'S SOOO AWESOOOME!" Ori was excited; the lingering feeling of danger could not squash its jubilant thoughts. No one said it plainly, but Ori didn't hesitate to speak its mind.
Wei Wuyin's mind stirred, realizing what had just happened, but he recalled that sensation of his breakthrough into the Astral Core Realm. He had seemingly returned to his firsts of many things, capable of reacting differently with his renewed awareness, and due to this, he had two sets of memories. He could never verify if he had indeed traveled back in time or not or if it was an illusion…
"Why? How?" He asked Kratos. Out of all of those here, he was the manifestation of the Void Dao, infused with its profound powers. He had tried to just traverse through the Void, so why did he experience such a strange, unfathomable situation?
Kratos was still tired, seemingly ready to sleep, but he answered with two words: "Paradoxical Correction." Those words were all it said before it started to go dormant. While Wei Wuyin could still use his Draconic Void Force, he was unable to interact with Kratos.
"Something must've happened when we were trying to travel through that array," Eden tried to find a reason. Unfortunately, that was all that it could say on the subject.
"...Yeah." Wei Wuyin could only agree, but the depths of his mind was vigorously stirring with all sorts of thoughts. If they had actually traversed through time and space, then…
The power of the Void Dao was truly heaven-defying, or at the very least, when he thought of the Temporal Reincarnator, it was heaven-equalling!
While this exchange seemed to have taken a long time, it was merely two additional seconds before it reached this point. Wei Wuyin didn't hesitate to flap his Infinite Void Wings and fly through the Dark Void with Wen Mingna and Bai Lin on tow. He didn't want to draw any more unwanted attention, especially since his eyes had unleashed that lantern-like spiritual light.
Several minutes later, a few figures descended upon the space where Wei Wuyin had been. They inspected the area but found no traces of any being here nor any strange treasures. They kept searching for an hour until nothing was found, soon scattering to search the nearby areas.
Wei Wuyin had long since left, concealing his trail by becoming one with fixed space.
Three days later, Wu Yu was still cultivating in a lunar satellite's earthen layer while hidden away. There was an ongoing search for his existence, but no cultivator above the Demi-Mortal Lord Phase, the Third Stage of the Mystic Ascendant Realm, had swept their spiritual senses across the planet. He remained completely undetected.
"The Imperial Void Shadow Spell is quite exceptional…" Wu Yu commented as he kept refining the World Genesis Elixir, cultivating the Blood Origin Method. Now that he was an Earthly Saint, having a body filled with Awakened Mystic Runes, he could refine Mystic-graded materials and products with faster speed.
In these three days, he refined another 30% of the elixir. He was very close to the second stage of the Blood Origin Method, the World-Blood Stage. Just a little more.
Suddenly, a spiritual light erupted from his hand. It belonged to his spatial ring, the one given to him by Wei Wuyin. His eyes lit with a heavy brilliance, intrigued as he inspected the spiritual light. The moment he did, he felt a strange spatial ripple erupt.
Pop!
A sound occurred, and a spherical Void Portal emerged directly before him, swallowing the loose earth around it.
A voice flowed through, giving off a familiar vibe that Wu Yu could never mistake.
"I can't hold it for long, hurry."
Wu Yu didn't hesitate, once again astonished by Wei Wuyin's exceptional means, and he entered the Void Portal.
Directly outside the Aeternal Sky Starfield's border outside of the Elementus Domain, just a mile away from its spatial restrictive limits, Wei Wuyin and Wen Mingna stood side by side atop Bai Lin floating in the Dark Void with the former's hand outstretched outward. A Void Portal, expanding and contracting erratically, was present before them.
Wu Yu walked out with a bright, relieved smile on his face. "Young Lord!"
