The figure suddenly swept a sleeve through the air, and the entire formation disintegrated into countless golden and silver runes, revealing the figure to be a black-robed young man with his hands clasped behind his back.

The young man had particularly pale skin that had an almost sickly appearance in contrast with his black robes.

After taking a glance at the black space around him, he seemed to have immediately realized what environment he was in, and his brows furrowed slightly as he pointed a finger upward.

Around a dozen silver runes instantly shot forth before vanishing into the surrounding space, and in the next instant, a burst of loud rumbling rang out all around him.

All of the surrounding earth was rapidly peeled back as if it had sprung to life, forming an extremely long canyon that led all the way to the surface of the ground.

The young man cast his gaze upward, and a pleased look appeared on his face at the sight of faint white light shining down from above.

A burst of light swept up from beneath his feet, carrying his body directly...