A purplish-red rift hung at the bottom of the hundred-meter-deep pit.
Qin Chuan took two steps forward. The dark gold patterns on his Deceiver's Trench Coat lit up, canceling out the tearing force spilling from the pit.
The opening had no fixed route marked by Spatial Coordinates.
The seawater pouring down from the Black Sea lost a large chunk the moment it touched the purplish-red edge, without a sound.
Qin Chuan sent his Divine Sense inside.
Layers of darkness stretched ahead. There were none of the Black Sea's repulsive Chaos Law barriers, none of the suppression built into the Prison-Suppressing Black Tower. There was only a turbulent fracture belt spanning untold light-years.
At the far end, several broken, abandoned energy rings drifted slowly.
Qin Chuan knew that material all too well.
They were the navigation beacons most commonly found along the edge of the Seventh Star Domain. During the battle in which the Origin Realm established its authority, those things had been blown across the stars.
Beyond this rift lay neither the Sea of Chaos nor the Lord of the Altar's private lair. It led straight to the Seventh Star Domain's public shipping lanes.
After all these years with the Divine Radiance Forbidden Zone sealed tight, its only physical exit had been hidden beneath the Altar of Origin.
Who would have thought to look there?
And even if someone had, the Lord of the Altar, Kuji, had once guarded this place. With his God King Realm strength and the advantage of home ground, anyone who came would have been throwing their life away.
Qin Chuan rubbed his fingertips together.
"I doubt Kuji ever imagined the way out was right beneath his altar."
Qin Chuan snapped his fingers.
The invisible Causal Line connecting his two avatars across countless miles instantly pulled