At the entrance to the Starfall Sea, an old man stepped forward. Behind him was an imprint of Madam Hong, and he was carrying a strange-looking weapon that he stabbed towards the drop of blood. However, his actions did not hinder the droplet in the least. It shot straight through the old man and passed through the Starfall Sea's entrance without any resistance before slowly dissipating. 

The spacecraft holding the Fifth Mainland cultivators did not hesitate, and it similarly shot straight past the elder before vanishing on the other side of the entrance. 

The old man turned to dust right where he stood, and all of the other Sixth Mainland cultivators who had been standing between the old man and the Starfall Sea's entrance also turned to dust. Everyone else stood rooted in place, not even daring to move. 

The group within the spacecraft did not understand what had just happened, and it was even possible that the Sea King himself might not fully understand everything. Only Lu Yin was aware that, when that drop of blood had appeared, it had absorbed the effects of the cosmic phenomenon in the sky. That had not been a drop of ordinary blood, and it should have come from the Rune Progenitor. The runes of the cosmic phenomenon itself had changed, and only the Rune Progenitor’s blood could have this effect on the cosmic phenomenon that was capable of suppressing everything. 

What made Lu Yin certain that the drop of blood had come from the Rune Progenitor was that he had felt an extremely strong attraction to...