As they entered the depths of the Chaos Sea along the "First Voyage Segment," the eternally unchanging gray tides finally rippled for the first time. The Stone Ridge Dao Ship sailed steadily through warped folds of space, while the Civilization Navigation Map Chu Qing had decoded from the Grand Subtle Ruins radiated an unprecedented, blazing golden light. At the end of the map, it pointed deep into the void, where something seemed to exist—a heart pulsing with an immensely regular, powerful rhythm, setting the tides of chaos throbbing.
"We've found it. This is the first innate world of the All Heavens." Standing atop the Nine Heavens Jade Platform, Chu Qing extended his Divine Sense across millions of light-years of chaotic separation and sensed the majestic outline of the realm ahead.
It was an immortal paradise wreathed in countless nebulae, its Spiritual Energy so dense it had nearly crystallized into tangible matter. Yet beneath that splendid exterior, the entire world was tightly bound by enormous pitch-black chains. Those chains were no ordinary objects, but defensive arrays formed from countless complex "air-forbidding runes," known as Gravity Locks. The Gravity Locks continuously absorbed the energy of chaos, utterly isolating the entire world from the outside and turning it into an inescapable prison.
"Honored Lord, that is the Heavenly Abyss Prison Lock Array." The accompanying Ancient Immortal wore a grave expression. "This array was specifically laid down against innate worlds of the All Heavens. Any Dao ship that tries to approach will be dragged by that gravity and crushed into dust by the laws of weight in an instant. Back then, the Supreme Subtle Immortal Realm was exiled into the wasteland after merely touching the edge of this array."
The moment he finished speaking, an invisible gravitational magnetic field swept through the void. The