A first glimpse into the Sea of ​​Annihilation! A void that devours everything!

The interior space of the "light chaser" was far more spacious than it appeared from the outside.

Lin Yuan sat in the pilot's seat.

Before him was not a traditional dashboard or control stick, but a vast star map composed of three-dimensional light and shadows.

At this moment, the star map was flowing backward at an unimaginable speed.

Countless stars and nebulae were stretched into brilliant bands of light, flashing past the porthole.

The Space Curvature Engine.

The speed of this top-tier exploration ship provided by Agatha had already far surpassed that of the candle dragon.

It was not performing physical flight.

Instead, it was continuously folding the space ahead.

In just a few minutes.

The "light chaser" had already crossed the distance of several war zones and arrived at an unknown Star Domain on the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield marked as "Extremely Dangerous."

[Warning! Approaching the outer region of the 'Sea of Annihilation'!]

[Warning! High-intensity Annihilation Field detected! Energy shields activated!]

[Warning! The hull structure is being eroded by unknown rules! Erosion rate: 0.01%... 0.03%...]

The piercing sound of alarms echoed frantically within the cockpit.

Lin Yuan looked up and gazed out the porthole.

The originally brilliant starry sky had vanished.

In its place was a pure "nothingness," deep to the extreme.

It wasn't black.

It was an absolute void where light, matter, and even concepts themselves seemed to be completely swallowed and erased.

Within this void, grey, lightning-like cracks would occasionally flash and vanish.

Every flash represented the complete annihilation of a piece of space.

This was the desperate land that made even King-Sealing Experts turn pale with fear—the Sea of Annihilation!

Any matter or energy, once entering this place, would be decomposed and annihilated by the "Annihilation" rules it contained, turning into the most primitive void.

The hull of the "light chaser" began to emit faint groans of being overburdened.

Its energy shield, which was strong enough to withstand a full-strength strike from a King-Sealing Expert, was melting rapidly before this bizarre field like snow under the sun, visible to the naked eye.

Yet, Lin Yuan's face remained calm, without a single ripple of emotion.

He even felt a hint of... comfort?

It was like walking into a room with the air conditioning turned to the maximum on a scorching summer day.

He could clearly perceive that his Primordial Chaos Sacred Body emitted a cheerful hum the moment it came into contact with this "Annihilation" aura.

Within his Dantian Qi Sea, that ancient primordial chaos sword embryo trembled slightly.

It was as if a person who had been hungry for a long time had smelled the aroma of food.

"A bit interesting."

Lin Yuan murmured to himself.

He shut down the engines of the "light chaser," allowing the top-tier exploration ship to hover at the edge of this void.

Then, he unbuckled his seatbelt and stood up.

He walked straight to the ship's hatch.

He didn't even activate any protection.

He simply pressed the open button.

Sss—

The hatch slid open.

A terrifying current of grey annihilation, sufficient to instantly decompose steel into basic particles, rushed frantically into the cabin like a flood finding an outlet!

However.

The moment this current touched Lin Yuan's body.

A bizarre scene occurred.

They caused no damage whatsoever.

Instead, they scrambled to pour into his limbs and bones like swallows returning to their nest!

Lin Yuan closed his eyes.

He could feel these "Annihilation" energies being easily converted and purified by the supreme power of the Primordial Chaos Sacred Body the moment they entered his body, turning into streams of extremely pure energy that merged into his Dantian Qi Sea.

The primordial chaos sword embryo emitted an increasingly heavy and ancient aura, as if it had consumed a potent tonic.

"The quality is indeed higher than that in the Returning Void."

Lin Yuan gave his evaluation.

"It's just... too thin."

This bit of energy on the outskirts was not even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

He opened his eyes, his gaze penetrating the endless void to look deeper into the Sea of Annihilation.

He needed more 'concentrated' firewood.

He took a step out, leaving the "light chaser," exposing himself directly to the terrifying environment of the Sea of Annihilation.

He put away the spaceship.

Then, following the coordinates given by Agatha, he walked unhurriedly toward the depths.

The rules here were a deadly poison to others.

To him, however, they were the top-tier tonic.

As he continued to go deeper.

The annihilation energy around him became increasingly dense and violent.

Grey spatial cracks flashed continuously around him.

But no matter how this power raged, it could not shake him in the slightest.

Instead, it became the thrust for his progress.

He didn't know how long he had been walking.

Lin Yuan's footsteps came to a halt.

In front of him, the wreckage of a tattered exploration ship, slightly smaller than the "light chaser," floated quietly in the void.

The hull was covered in hideous holes eroded by the annihilation energy.

Looking at its insignia, it was a standard vessel belonging to the Alliance Military Court.

Clearly, this was the ship Avrora had piloted back then.

Lin Yuan's figure flickered, and he appeared inside the wreckage.

The cockpit was a mess.

Most of the equipment had been completely destroyed.

Only a black Flight Recorder, protected by a special alloy, still flickered with a faint red light.

Lin Yuan reached out, and a trace of Primordial Chaos Sword Aura probed into it.

Buzz—

A fragmented image, filled with static, appeared in his mind.

In the image was a silver-haired woman who looked seventy to eighty percent similar to Agatha, but with a much more lively temperament.

She was Avrora.

"...Day 72, I feel like I'm about to succeed! The core of the Sea of Annihilation indeed hides the secret to a Breakthrough!"

"...Day 81, damn it! I seem to have been targeted by something! It's not a native creature of the Sea of Annihilation; that aura... is filled with greed and... evil!"

"...It came from that direction... that forbidden land marked as the 'Ranch'!"

"...I can't escape, it's toying with me, like a cat with a mouse... I will activate the final Distress Beacon, if anyone can receive it..."

The image came to an abrupt end here.

There was no surprise on Lin Yuan's face.

The Ranch.

As expected, it was related to that place.

Just as he was about to withdraw his Sword Aura.

Beep.

A soft sound.

That Distress Beacon, which should have long since run out of energy, actually lit up abruptly!

An extremely weak yet incredibly clear signal was emitted from it.

The signal pointed straight to the deepest part of the Sea of Annihilation.

A playful smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

He could feel it.

This signal was new.

Moreover, it carried a... scent of a hook.

Something was mimicking Avrora's distress signal.

It was fishing.