Chapter 494: Void

Ace threw the various Legendary-level materials collected over the past year into it to enrich the compass. After about a day, the rough form of an Astral Compass was formed.

This unfinished compass was like jade throughout, warm, moist, white, and bright, faintly emitting a pure golden light that flickered attractively.

Ace stared at this compass, which was as bright as white jade and faintly glowing with gold, using the “Eye of True Knowledge.” Following the records in the Dream Bubble Knowledge, he inscribed runes and dragon language incantations into it one by one.

This process took a long time and allowed for no errors. Ace first experimented with phantom images manifested in the dream for nearly a month. Only after experiencing dozens of failures did he inscribe the runes and dragon language incantations onto the unfinished compass.

As each rune was inscribed and each mysterious dragon language incantations was written, Ace discovered that the pure golden light on the Astral Compass gradually dimmed and became obscure. The originally white jade-like compass also became simple, ancient, and worn, looking like a stubborn common stone.

When Ace finished the last rune, the entire Astral Compass had become incomparably old, resembling an ordinary stone disk, looking very inconspicuous.

But when Ace gently stroked the stone disk, magnificent light burst out instantly, actually illuminating the entire Mental Imagery Dream Starry Sky Universe with brightness.

“This item is quite magical. It doesn’t need to be taken out; placing it in the mental imagery world does not affect its use.”

Ace first operated the compass carefully. A pitch-black phantom appeared above the compass. He communicated with the core of the compass with his mind, inscribing his own spiritual imprint on it.

The core of the compass offered almost no resistance to Ace’s inscription. The inscription was successful very easily. The core flowed with multicolored light, looking very beautiful.

A bright point gradually appeared in that pitch-black phantom, located at the center of the compass.

“This bright point should be the coordinates of the Kaya World. The center coordinate of the Astral Compass is the home world, and also the guide for travelers to return home.”

Ace opened his eyes, released the seal on the castle, and walked out.

The Human Bone King had returned victorious long ago, but because the castle was sealed by Ace, he couldn’t enter and could only wait outside. Seeing Ace walk out, the Human Bone King was about to step forward, but saw a flash of white light, and Ace had disappeared.

He looked around but couldn’t see a trace of Ace.

Ace had already broken through the spatial barrier and arrived at the Inner World. He didn’t stay and used another ultra-long-distance Flash, appearing in the Sea of Reality and Illusion on the Outer World.

To break away from the world, one must first break away from the Inner World.

Only in the Sea of Reality and Illusion was it possible to contact the World Crystal Wall.

But the crystal wall of a world was so sturdy. It was not a dead object, but similar to a living thing, capable of swallowing and spitting out various existences, possessing extremely incredible functions.

Ace flashed hundreds of times in succession, traveling for nearly a day, and finally arrived near the crystal wall of the Kaya World. It was transparent and invisible here. If one walked forward normally, they would not leave the world but would appear at another location in the Outer World.

Ace’s eyes bloomed with white light, yet he was completely unable to understand the World Crystal Wall. In his eyes, there was nothing in front of him.

But the Astral Compass was glowing faintly, reminding him that the crystal wall was right in front.

“Truly magical. If I didn’t rely on the compass, I wouldn’t be able to observe it at all. This crystal wall itself is a very great and mysterious existence.”

While speaking, Ace resonated his mind with the spiritual imprint inside the compass. His eyes were covered with a layer of brilliance as bright as stars, and the scene before him changed drastically.

That deep, invisible scene gradually turned into a crystal wall with no end in sight. The wall was not smooth; it was pitted and uneven, with many protrusions and grooves.

“The so-called World Crystal Wall might itself be a huge set of tissues with strong instinctive reactions. As long as we follow its instinctive reactions, we can detach from or enter the world.”

As Ace spoke, he activated the Astral Compass. His whole body was shrouded in golden brilliance. He walked slowly to a groove and attempted to cross.

Whenever the resistance was high, Ace left immediately and changed to another groove. After several consecutive attempts, he finally found a groove with almost no resistance.

Ace first marked this groove, then activated the Astral Compass. Shrouded in brilliant light, he instantly turned into a stream of light and went through the groove.

This journey was not as easy as Ace imagined, simply breaking away from the world. Instead, he shuttled through a seemingly extremely long and narrow spatial tunnel.

Unknown how much time passed, seeing only darkness ahead, Ace, transformed into brilliant light, traveled through the darkness. Just as he was burning with anxiety, his field of vision suddenly widened, and he broke away from the Kaya World.

Ace was not in a hurry to leave. In fact, this time he was just trying it out. He planned to roam the surface layer and vicinity of the Kaya World Crystal Wall for a while and then go back.

The outer side of the crystal wall was mottled and sturdy. The tunnel through which he had just detached from the Kaya World had long disappeared.

Flying further out for a distance, he still saw the boundless Kaya Crystal Wall. He continued to fly outwards. It was silent and vast. The clock in his mental imagery world was ticking. It took Ace nearly a week of flying before he saw the outline of the Kaya World.

What came into view was an oval giant cocoon, its pure golden light dizzying.

Ace floated in the Astral Void, unable to help feeling the vastness of heaven and earth and the boundlessness of the universe. He felt as small as an ant, yet his heart felt carefree. It seemed that in this infinitely vast Astral Void, his mood became lofty.

“Compared to it, I am too insignificant. I don’t know when I can stand shoulder to shoulder with the world and roam the Astral Void freely? This crystal wall is indeed strange. When I attached to it, what I saw was like jagged rocks, gray everywhere. But after pulling away the distance, it is a patch of pure gold, dizzying and fascinating.”

Ace flew with all his might, but compared to the entire Kaya World, he was too slow. He flew for a while and stopped.

“If I don’t use the Light Transformation Method of the Astral Compass, my supersonic flight is simply like a snail crawling; it is atrociously slow. Teleportation is fast, but difficult to sustain and consumes intensely.

“There are almost no supplies in the Astral Void. The Light Transformation Method allows me to fly at near light speed with extremely low consumption. It’s just that such a voyage might be hard to sustain as well.

“If I were a Demi-god, I could use the method of Astral Warp to jump an extremely long spatial distance. It is too forced for now.”

Saying this, Ace shook his head and activated the Light Transformation Secret Art in the Astral Compass. He turned into a stream of brilliant light. In an instant, he traced a beautiful arc, flipping to the opposite side of the Kaya World.

Enjoying the carefree feeling of flying at near light speed, a refreshing feeling incomparable to driving any sports car in his past life, Ace intended to fly around the world in the nearby void for a few weeks to understand the situation of the void nearby. Suddenly, he was startled by the scene in front of him.

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