Future Era, aboard the battleship:
Phoenix Emperor and her mother woke at the same time, then let out long breaths. "Madness. Utter madness!"
Ever since the battleship arrived above Bi Luo Mountain, the two sides had been locked in confrontation for over ten days.
Over those ten-plus days:
The people aboard the Starry Sky Battleship kept applying pressure.
But the people of Bi Luo Mountain were no ordinary lot.
No one knew where they had met so many Great Figures of the Alliance. A large number of Great Figures stepped forward to stop them.
More viciously still:
The entire Extreme Joy Continent had ground to a halt because of this.
Countless natives of the Extreme Joy Continent appeared, standing both atop and below Bi Luo Mountain.
Everyone had only one thing to say:
If they wanted to excavate Bi Luo's self-sealed place, then either blow this continent apart.
Or wipe out every living being on the Extreme Joy Continent.
If this had happened several dozen eras ago, exterminating all the living beings on a continent would have been a trivial matter.
But not now.
The Alliance lacked population. It would never permit the extermination of everyone on an entire continent.
After all, there were simply too many people, and the impact would be far too great.
Now, the two sides were deadlocked.
Phoenix Emperor and her mother had no intention of getting involved in this matter.
With nothing better to do, the two held hands and slept, entering their dreams to see Stone Ridge Mountain.
At first, everything was normal.
But before long, they discovered that time in the dream was flowing faster.
They had merely woken up once, yet when they entered the dream again, they found that four or five years had already passed within it.
Then they