Inside the ancestral shrine space...
A sheen of sweat seeped from Zhou You's forehead, back, and palms. Things had reached the most critical moment.
Things had gone rather smoothly at first. He had blasted open the spatial crystals with his fists; amid punches and kicks, Qi and Blood Essence had pushed his power to an unprecedented height, breaking through his own limits and connecting with heaven and earth.
But space did not favor individuals. Everything within it was linked by countless invisible threads.
For instance, the ring space he had previously constructed through the Heart Demon Ring disguise was separated from reality, yet it could not become wholly independent.
That space had been formed by him siphoning power from Demon Weapon Village. More precisely, it was a strand of vines parasitizing the Earth Capital, and it still needed the Earth Capital as its foundation.
Should an earthquake or other natural disaster strike the Earth Capital, it would feed back into the Ring World. Conversely, if the ring space experienced too great a disturbance, exceeding its shielding limit, that too would feed back into the Earth Capital's real world.
Demon Weapon Village worked the same way. Those Weapon Masters who had hidden themselves within Demon Weapon Village were in truth concealed in a space layered atop reality.
The Heaven Hall of the God of Release Cult was another such example. The principle was the same, though the cultists' methods were more sophisticated, and their hiding place far more concealed.
As he broke through at this moment, the space around him and the ancestral shrine shared a similar relationship—separated, but not completely independent.
And the ancestral shrine space itself depended on the real world.
Thus, every tremor from his strikes against the surrounding space would be transmitted and shifted into the ancestral