In the universe.

Numerous stars hover in the endless sky, some distant stars glittering.

This is a vibrant universe, surrounded by the starry rivers, one can feel the presence of life on many planets.

Those planets teeming with life are enveloped by special laws, constantly in motion.

At this moment, two figures clad entirely in black appear in the universe, their garments somewhat shabby, exuding a historical aura, who knows how long they’ve been worn, with only their eyes and eyebrows exposed.

Their eyes all as sharp as knives, piercingly fierce, extremely keen.

Their eyebrows are all white, suggesting they should be advanced in age.

The two gaze at a piece of void, then cooperatively strike, directly causing a black hole to appear, endless black streams swirling with powerful suction, absorbing everything nearby.

Although the black hole’s appearance devours all, amidst this cosmic sphere, an invisible force seems to have restrained the black hole, causing it to gradually shrink instead.

The two black-clad figures exchange a glance and move forward, disappearing in the blink of an eye, and the black hole gradually closes, until it eventually vanishes entirely, as if it never existed.

Whoosh.

Somewhere on the star river path.

The sky tears open, revealing a crack, as the two figures emerge consecutively.

In the instant they emerged, both spat a mouthful of fresh blood that corroded the ground, leaving a pit.

This ordeal left both somewhat unexpected.

"As expected, stepping into the star river path comes with a certain price," one black-clad man remarked coolly.

"If I’m not mistaken, it should be that City Lord altering the rules of this land, a warning for entering here without his consent," the other commented.

Earlier, when the two were traversing inside the black hole and tearing the space wall of the star river path, a force entered their bodies leading to them vomiting blood upon arrival here.

"We came just to find out who killed my shadow organization personnel, seeking a result. As long as we don’t interfere with his star river ancient city, he won’t act against us."

"Although our strength isn’t at its peak, with the two of us coming together, it should suffice to find the culprit."

"Find him, bring him back to headquarters to suffer the agony of a thousand-years burn."

"As long as that City Lord and a few order enforcers don’t intervene, that person can’t escape."

The two black-clad figures brimmed with fighting spirit, confident of finding the murderer.

Thus, they prepared to leave here.

However, as soon as they took a few steps, their surroundings changed.

"Huh? Illusion Array?"

The two were a bit confused how suddenly an array appeared, apart from the star river ancient city, they hadn’t heard of arrays appearing elsewhere on the star river path.

The two harbored many doubts, yet weren’t overly concerned, given their strength, the cosmic realm, could ordinary arrays really hinder them?

But as they cracked several arrays in succession, their brows grew knotted.

Which fellow laid down such obnoxious arrays.

Turns out, every time they broke through an illusion array, a wooden plaque appeared in front of them.

The first plaque read: "Not every ’sorry’ can exchange for ’it’s okay,’ not every ’I love you’ can exchange for ’being together,’ not you... please see the backside!"

So the two flipped the plaque over, finding large characters: "Not you breaking the array will let you leave here."

What the hell?

These two esteemed shadow cosmic powerhouses almost went dumbfounded upon seeing this text on the plaque, was this a pun or what?

You gotta be kidding!

The two stomped the plaque to pieces, yet more arrays awaited them, and after they broke the second array, they saw another plaque.

They glanced at it, nearly spitting blood again.

The plaque read: "Ugly, hey hey hey hey hey, don’t turn on the lights..."

Who are you calling ugly? You numbskull, have no business laying arrays and engraving words on plaques for fun!

Upon seeing the third plaque, its size was larger than before, with more text. Initially, they weren’t planning to read it, given the previous plaques, thinking it would be better to stomp it straight away. But not reading felt unsettling.

Thus, out of a curiosity, they decided to read it one last time, glimpsing at the text on the plaque.

"Life is interactive, one person’s life has passion, has joy, two people’s lives can exchange passion, share pain and joy, the road can walk further, walk better, then..."

The two already knew the second half should be on the back of the plaque, so they flipped it over to see.

"Then please speak of your pains, let me delight in joy."

The two: "..."

Whiz!

The plaque turned to dust in their hands, feeling teased, whoever laid the array and plaques must be nuts, mentally troubled, at first a whiff of inspirational quote, but the next second, it unexpectedly takes such a vomit-inducing turn.

Going forward, upon seeing any plaques, they refused to read, crushing them directly.

Otherwise, they might perish from anger before even leaving.

Outside the grand array, Ye Qiu and Zhuang Miao Shan had arrived long ago, now watching the scene inside unfold openly, they saw everything clearly.

"This is your method to provoke them?" Zhuang Miao Shan remarked with a laugh.

Ye Qiu nodded earnestly, considering how much time was spent devising these, just to infuriate these powerhouse entities bit by bit, making them increasingly agitated.

"If I were them, I’d probably be enraged to death by now," Zhuang Miao Shan chuckled.

Ye Qiu shrugged, saying, "No choice, to successfully ambush, it must be done, to make them reveal a flaw mentally."

Zhuang Miao Shan chuckled: "You’ve provoked plenty, now let’s take action, capture these two quickly, before other sect’s powers arrive, leaving us stretched thin."

Ye Qiu did this, naturally to prepare for a joint ambush with the master-apprentice duo, seeing now that the two shadow powerhouses inside the grand array are beyond infuriated, kicking the plaques with desperation, indeed the perfect timing.

With Formation Master Ye Qiu present, the two entered the grand array unimpeded, soon approaching the positions of the two shadow powerhouses.

After that, they split up, Ye Qiu hiding inside the Taihuang Bell, ready for the frontal assault, Zhuang Miao Shan moving strategically.

The hunting mission begins anew!