A Blood-draining Celestial Fiend had replaced Wu Qi without alerting anybody while his true-self ripped the void and slipped through the opening stealthily. In the boundless space, his body turned into a faint trace of starlight, mixing along with all the other lights and advancing at a slow pace. Soon afterward, he arrived on a fire meteor suspending in the void.
The meteor had a surface area of about a dozen acres, and was entirely composed of purple flame rocks that had been tempered day and night by the Heavenly Fire above the Nine Heavens. Columns of raging flames towered hundreds of feet tall over it, and yet they could not harm the two men who stood there with calm expressions—a daoist and a monk.