Star Odyssey

e power of my predecessors! Please help me, sir, and destroy this fake sky.
Return the Fifth Mainland to what it once was.” He then pulled out all of the pyrolyte he possessed, wrapped it within the cloak, and smashed it against the stone gate. 

Within the Starfall Sea, an old man suddenly appeared.
He only took one step, but that one step brought him next to the various powerhouses of the Innerverse.
This included the two Envoys.
When they saw the old man, their faces immediately revealed their shock as they both paled.
On his third step, the old man arrived at the Sea King ’s Dome, but he merely glanced at it for a second.
On his fourth step, he appeared high up in the waterfall. 

He appeared just in time to see the stained cloak move towards the stone gate.
He had intended to stop the Sea King, but he seemed to be afraid of something.
Although he had an opportunity to do something, his moment of hesitation allowed the stained cloak to hit the gate.

In that moment, the heavens crashed down—literally.
The heavens had cracked open.
The Starfall Sea had cracked apart, and the same was true of the stone gate.
Behind it was an old woman with a very stern face.
As soon as she saw the cloak, her expression quickly changed.
“Th-th- That’s!” But before she could even finish her sentence, the cloak brushed past her, and most of her body was destroyed.
She had died that fast.
Even while dead, there was a look of terror on her face. 

Behind her stood a second stone gate.
The stained cloak did not slow down, and it struck the second gate as well.
When that gate cracked open, the same incident occurred.
However, this time, it wasn’t only just the Starfall Sea that shook; the entire Chaos Flowzone and even the Astral River that divided the Innerverse and the Outerverse began trembling as space collapsed 

Behind the second stone gate was another person.
This time, it was an old man, and when he blinked, everything he saw disintegrated into nothingness.
The Sea King felt a cold chill; this power was not something that he could face. 

However, the old man’s aura of strength lasted for no more than a moment.
The instant the old man saw the blood-stained cloak, his expression changed just like the old woman’s.
“Pro- Progenitor Chen’s cloak! How dare you!”

The old man struck out, trying to stop the cloak in vain.
At that moment, the pyrolyte inside the cloth exploded.
The Sea King had personally moved to seize most of the pyrolyte mined from Planet Pyrolyte and all of it exploded at once.
The cloak’s blood contaminated the explosion, raising its power to another level.
Although the old man was very powerful, his strength still was not enough to stop such an explosive force.
In terms of power levels, this explosion was well over a million. 

The stained cloak was shredded by the power of the explosion as it then struck the third gate that lay behind the old man. 

The old man roared, “Our ancestor gave you a way out of this from the kindness of his heart! How dare you trample upon it!” 

The Sea King stared intently at the third gate behind the old man, all the while internally screaming, Open, open, open!

The old man turned around and also looked at the third gate.

Crack!

With a quiet sound, the cloak finally disintegrated due to the power of the pyrolyte explosion.
The third gate opened, and though it was only the tiniest bit, the Sea King could sense an aura that was completely different from that of where he was currently standing.
This aura changed the very nature of space.

The Sea King burst into laughter.
“This is it! This is the true universe! This is the fifth! This is the fifth!!!” 

The old man was enraged.
“You’re looking to die!” He then aimed his hand at the Sea King.

The Sea King continues to laugh crazily.
He had no plans to fight back anymore.
The old man’s power was terrifying, and he was not somebody that the Sea King could compare to.
Just as the old man’s attack was about to land on the Sea King, the old man from the Starfall Sea pulled the Sea King backwards, raised his fist, and attacked. 

The shocking attack blew the Sea King’s mind as the old man raced back while dragging the Sea King along with him.
“Arch-Elder Zen ?” 

Arch-Elder Zen appeared to be serious.
In front of him, the old man protecting the stone gate lifted a hand once again.
“Child, although we might have similar power levels, you will not be able to stop me that easily.
You will die!” 

The Sea King looked grim.
“Please leave, Arch-Elder Zen.
I’ll stop him.”

Arch-Elder Zen did not answer.
Instead, he stared at a certain place.
To be more precise, he stared behind the old man and through the third stone gate.
His pupils shrank when he saw a finger—a pretty, jade-like finger—smash through the stone gate that had opened by a tiny crack.
The finger was aimed right at the old man protecting the stone gate.

The old man felt a chill go down his spine, and he turned back, startled.
“Who are you?”

The finger tapped the old man’s head, and it nearly forced his head into his chest as he was smashed downwards.
After that, the finger pulled back.
Arch-Elder Zen and the Sea King stared on in shock.
Through the destroyed gate, they could see an unfamiliar space and a pair of bright eyes.
They were beautiful, but so, so arrogant. 

The third gate had finally been destroyed, and the shockwaves spread out in all directions.
At an indescribable speed, they swept across the Starfall Sea, then the Innerverse, Astral River, Cosmic Sea, Outerverse, and on and on.

In the Starfall Sea, numerous people looked up, confused.
Why did it seem like the sky was growing brighter?

The powerhouses from the Daynight clan, the Sword Sect, and all the other powerful forces looked up.
Something seemed to have changed.
Space itself seemed to have changed.

Shortly after, space fragmented apart.
Everybody gaped, staring at the sky in disbelief.
It had split open and then vanished.
After that, a completely different sky appeared.

Meanwhile, a huge change occurred in the Astral River.
The liquid energy that formed the river suddenly surged upwards, causing the Astral River Ark to lose control.
The huge vessel shot towards the Outerverse as if somebody had flung it away.
The tributaries of the Astral River spread throughout the Innerverse behaved the same.
Everything suddenly rose up and sealed off each of the flowzones. 

The Astral River had just completely separated the Innerverse and the Outerverse.