Chapter 403: The Void Star Sea

Leaving the secret realm at the end of the Nine Heavens branch road, Ye Wuque and Geshu Wenyue did not linger at all.

The two turned into two streaks of light cutting the starry sky, one black and one dark, and sped along the faintly marked track of the Ancient Path law toward deeper, more vast unknown regions.

Their speed was extreme; the endless distance of the starry sky was but a blink for them.

Along the way, they could still occasionally glimpse scattered Nine Heavens branch road areas: broken Ancient Stars floating, fractured mountains and rivers drifting, and lingering battle traces, indicating the fierce contests that once raged on this branch road.

But more so, a gradually intensifying sense of an endpoint pervaded; the law weakened, opportunities thinned, and the road ahead seemed to converge and gather.

About half a day later.

The starry sky ahead suddenly became immensely open and profound.

It felt as if one had rushed from a surging river to the mouth of an endless ocean.

An indescribable vast, ancient, desolate aura, like the breath of a slumbering primordial leviathan, washed over them.

Ye Wuque and Geshu Wenyue simultaneously slowed their pace and halted at the edge of the starry sky.

The scene that unfolded before their eyes moved even them, given their insight and temperament.

Before them, no longer were familiar constellations arrayed, nor nebulae drifting.

In their place, there was a… sea.

A boundless, slowly flowing ocean of stars formed by countless converging stars!

This is the Xu Wu Xing Hai that spans between the Nine Heavens branch road and the Ultimate Main Road, renowned throughout the Zhutian Wanjie!

The sea is not true water, but composed of endless ancient stars of varying sizes and lights!

These stars are densely packed, far more than billions.

They do not remain static; under a grand ancient law they rise, surge, and flow like ocean waves.

Up close, each droplet is a genuine star: some blaze like the sun, spewing billions of feet of flame; some are cold as a frosty moon, emitting a pale glow; some teem with life, shrouding atmosphere and continents; some are dead and desolate, leaving only shattered star cores…

They are bound together by an invisible force, together forming this soul‑shaking ocean of stars!

The star sea is not tranquil.

At times massive waves surge, a terrifying torrent of thousands of stars, roaring as they crush the Void, tearing black Liewen in Space wherever they pass.

There are also deep vortices slowly rotating, devouring nearby starlight and matter, emitting a heart‑pounding suction.

Some regions have stars arranged into cryptic patterns, with faint Dao Rule sigils flickering, clearly harboring unknown mysteries or dangers.

The entire Xu Wu Xing Hai is so vast and towering beyond imagination that the eye cannot see its horizon.

It is like a natural, magnificent yet peril‑filled barrier, spanning here, linking the various branches of the Star Sky Ancient Road with the final Ultimate Main Road.

"Xu Wu Xing Hai…" Geshu Wenyue inhaled deeply, his eyes reflecting the splendid yet perilous star ocean, his tone tinged with awe, "Arriving here makes one feel as tiny as dust. It is said this star sea was not naturally formed, but after a cataclysmic war that once rippled across the Zhutian Wanjie, countless shattered worlds and stars were gathered and compressed by the Ancient Path law. The ancient Grievance, broken Dao Rules, and chaotic Time‑Space Turbulence it contains have never fully settled, thus birthing countless opportunities and dangers."

Ye Wuque nodded silently; his Divine Sense, like invisible tendrils, cautiously extended forward, perceiving the aura of the star sea.

Indeed, beyond the vast Great Power of the stars, he also detected some extremely subtle yet unsettling fluctuations.

There were the mutterings of Time‑Space Turbulence, the lingering obsessions of ancient Remnant Souls, the wails of broken Tiandao… This star sea is a treasury and a graveyard.

"Passing through here leads to the Ultimate Main Road?" Ye Wuque asked.

"Correct." Geshu Wenyue pointed toward a direction deep within the star sea, where a more grand and stable law aura faintly emanated, like a lighthouse in the ocean, "The Xu Wu Xing Hai is the hub linking all branches and the Main Road. The exit of our Nine Heavens branch road lies here; other branches—Other Shore branch road, Xuanhuang branch road, Honghuang branch road, and so on—also have their exits scattered across different regions of this star sea. To step onto the Ultimate Main Road, one must cross this star sea. Thus, this place is not merely a passage; in a sense, it is also the first convergence point, the first arena of competition for the beings of each branch before entering the Main Road."

His tone was profound.

Ye Wuque understood immediately.

Beings emerging from different branches represent different worlds and factions; they may already harbor grudges, or simply vie for opportunities within the star sea and the chance to enter the Main Road first, making conflict almost inevitable. This Xu Wu Xing Hai is unlikely to remain peaceful.

Just as the two were observing and conversing.

Buzz—

From other directions of the Xu Wu Xing Hai, even across vast distances, strong Space fluctuations began arriving in rapid succession!

Evidently, the exits of other branches also saw massive numbers of beings stepping out, entering this star sea.

Ye Wuque gazed far ahead; with his formidable Divine Soul and eyesight, he could see on other coastlines of the star sea variously sized Space vortices constantly devouring and emitting light, streams of figures of differing aura and strength, like schools of fish returning to the sea, soaring from those vortices into the star sea.

In some regions, a massive surge of beings poured out, a black sea of figures, their auras mingled yet overall powerful, evidently from a prosperous, mighty great world.

In other regions, only a few scattered figures appeared, each like a coiled beast, their aura compact and terrifying, clearly from an elite lineage.

Further away, some vortices spewed light bearing vastly different Dao Rhythms—some holy and serene, some grim and eerie, some Honghuang ancient, some ethereally unfathomable… representing the Heavenly Pride of various civilizations and Dao lineages across the Zhutian Wanjie, which at this moment began their first remote convergence within this vast star sea.

The most spectacular and intense chapter of the Star Sky Ancient Road, as the Xu Wu Xing Hai becomes lively, officially unfolds!

Meanwhile, on a star‑sea coast extremely distant from the Nine Heavens branch road exit.

The Space vortices here display an unsettling dark‑red hue, like dried blood scabs.

At the vortex edges, thick black mist continuously seeps out, bearing the scent of decay, depravity, and madness.

Here lies the exit of the branch road corresponding to the Other Shore World!