Chapter 3668: Refining the Real into the Void

He hadn't left yet. Yang Kai suddenly recalled something, reached out with a wave of his hand, and summoned Lord Feng from the Small Myriad Domain. Lord Feng still looked the same as after the great battle — although he'd spent ten years inside the Small Myriad Domain, there was no way to heal his injuries. The fact that he was still alive at all was only because Yang Kai had kept him useful.

Yang Yan narrowed her phoenix eyes, looked him over, and let out a surprised whistle. "Feng Zaixiao? How did you capture him?"

"You know him?" Yang Kai chuckled.

"How could I not? He's one of the Four Great Lord-Envoys of the Demon Heaven Path — quite famous." A smile curved Yang Yan's lips, but there was not a trace of warmth in her eyes.

Lord Feng lay on the ground and actually put on an ingratiating expression for her. A mighty Pseudo-Emperor, reduced to such a state — truly pitiful.

Yang Yan looked Yang Kai over once more. "No wonder you're injured — even your hair has turned white. Nothing serious, I hope?"

There were bloodstains on Yang Kai's chest, but those were self-inflicted. The wounds from his battle with Lord Feng had been fully healed a decade ago.

Yang Yan had been wondering earlier how Yang Kai's hair had gone so white in such a short time. Now she understood — the battle with Lord Feng must have consumed so much of him that he'd burned through his lifespan.

"I'm fine. There were some complications, but the outcome was good. He's all yours now. Being one of the Four Great Lord-Envoys, we should be able to extract quite a bit of useful intelligence from him."

The main reason he'd kept Lord Feng alive was to squeeze information about the Demon Heaven Path out of him. If they could follow the trail and locate the hiding places of the other three Lord-Envoys, that would be ideal.

The Demon Heaven Path was a cancer of the Star Realm. While their forces weren't as massive as the Demon Race army, they operated in the shadows, making them extremely difficult to track. Now that they'd caught this big fish — Lord Feng — it was only proper to make the most of him.

Yang Yan nodded. "I'll record this as a merit for you. I'll mention it to Li Wuyi later."

"And let the Great Emperor know too. To capture Lord Feng, I even used the divine ability encoded in the Legion Commander's seal. Tell him to compensate me for it." Yang Kai rode the momentum while he could.

Yang Yan laughed softly. "I can pass along the message, no problem. Whether he'll actually compensate you — that's up to the Great Emperor."

Yang Kai didn't press the matter. "Fine, then. I'm heading out."

"Don't take too long."

Yang Kai nodded, reached out with his mind to commune with the origin power of the Star Domain, and with a tremble around his body, vanished before Yang Yan's eyes in the most abrupt manner imaginable.

Unlike any previous passage through the void, when Yang Kai connected with the Star Domain's origin power and traveled toward the Hengluo Star Domain this time, he suddenly fell into a world of dazzling, kaleidoscopic color.

Everything around him was a psychedelic swirl — time and space twisted to infinity. No sound, no shadow, only brilliant, kaleidoscopic hues. Yang Kai could feel himself moving, moving at an inconceivable speed, yet he had no control over the direction.

He didn't panic. For reasons he couldn't quite articulate, he simply knew he would arrive at his intended destination, so he quietly savored this utterly unique journey.

It didn't take long — perhaps only three or five breaths, the time it took him to blink once — when the brilliant colors around him suddenly faded. In the next moment, Yang Kai found himself standing amid a vast sea of stars. An indescribable joy welled up from the depths of his heart, and a feeling of having come home rose unbidden.

He had indeed come home. Without needing to carefully orient himself, Yang Kai knew he had returned to the Hengluo Star Domain! The refined Star Domain origin within him resonated with the surrounding starfield, and every star in the domain brightened by several degrees, radiating dazzling light.

Across the Star Domain, on each cultivation world, billions of beings raised their heads to gaze upward, eyes filled with astonishment, wondering why today's sun and moon seemed larger and rounder than usual.

From nearby came a series of thunderous booms, each one accompanied by blinding flashes of white light.

Yang Kai turned to look and saw two fleets from some unknown faction engaged in battle amid the void. The warships were fearsome in design — the large ones spanning hundreds of zhang, the smaller ones several dozen zhang. Blazing beams of star cannon fire hammered into the opposing fleet's formations, and the battle raged on furiously.

The two fleets each commanded roughly equal numbers of warships — one fleet painted red, the other black — and their strength was closely matched. It was unclear how long they'd been fighting, but both had taken considerable damage. Severely battered warships were pulled to the rear and hidden for emergency repairs, while the frontline vessels raised their defenses, dodging and counterattacking simultaneously.

The scene was truly a heated spectacle, but judging by the current state of affairs, it would likely end in mutual devastation, with neither side gaining the upper hand.

Yang Kai watched for a moment, blinked, then raised both hands and pushed his sleeves up. His left hand faced the red fleet, his right hand faced the black fleet. He made a grasping motion toward both from a distance, then swept them apart.

In an instant, heaven and earth seemed to spin. The cultivators aboard both fleets felt as though the universe had flipped upside down and the four poles had collapsed. By the time they regained their senses, there was no trace of the enemy before them — and their own fleets had been displaced hundreds of thousands of li from the original battlefield.

Everyone was shocked, not daring to linger a moment longer. They dragged their damaged warships and fled back to base...

For the cultivators of both fleets, today's encounter was utterly bizarre. But for Yang Kai, it was nothing more than an idle whim — like walking down a road, spotting a small pebble, and casually kicking it aside...