"Eternal Heart..." Zhou Tong took the sphere. He merely glanced at it a few times before quickly breaking through the outermost layer of dense markings.
"The first layer is simple, only comparable to the first layer of the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction." Zhou Tong understood that the difficulty of the first several layers was likely comparable to the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction. The real test lay ahead.
"Break!" "Break!" "Break!"...
Zhou Tong spent almost no time on the first nine layers, breaking through them with ease. Altogether, they took only half a month.
However, starting from the tenth layer, the difficulty increased by an entire level. Gradually, Zhou Tong spent longer and longer thinking as he deciphered them.
From this layer onward, Zhou Tong's time spent deciphering the dense markings was basically measured in years.
The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth layers were still manageable, each solved within ten years. But the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth layers took centuries each. The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth layers each took thousands of years. The nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first layers each cost Zhou Tong more than ten thousand years.
Of course, those were ten thousand years under time acceleration. In reality, less than a day had passed.
"These restrictions seem to contain something unusual, something that seems connected to the principles of other worlds!" The more Zhou Tong comprehended them, the more he felt that they differed slightly from the principles of other worlds.
"If I had to put it into words, they are somewhat like the Other Shore Dao of the Masters in the Yang God World, though there are also many differences."
"In fact, the power of this mist bears some resemblance to the sovereign power of the Reincarnation World, yet it is more inclusive and more powerful than sovereign power."
"That is why