That day, Chu Qing softly told his five wives of his final pursuit of the Great Dao. There was no excessive reluctance to part, for through the Telepathic Heart Seal, their hearts had long been connected as one. Beneath the trusting, affectionate gazes of Princess Consort, Liuli, Cui Moyang, Madam Jin, and Consort Mei, Chu Qing left Stone Ridge Immortal City alone, transforming into an incomparably dazzling violet-gold streak of light as he sped toward the farthest edge of the vast Chaos Sea—the Wuwang Void, a place even ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals dared not enter lightly.
As he ventured deep into the Chaos Sea, the surrounding space completely lost all definition of matter and time. Only endless chaotic currents and shattered fragments of ancient dimensions remained. Just as Chu Qing approached the "Origin Fault" recorded in the journal, an incomparably strange distortion of laws suddenly rippled through the void. It was the Dimensional Defense System left behind from the old era, guarding the Origin Fault. Upon sensing the approach of a living being, the system automatically awakened and transformed into an ancient phantom carrying a cold, exclusionary pressure, attempting to deliver a devastating dimensional strike against Chu Qing's spirit:
[Ancient Prohibition: Ahead lies the 'Transcendence Restricted Zone.' Those without Origin authorization are strictly forbidden from prying.] [Logical Attack: Forcibly inject the concept of 'Dimensional Annihilation,' define the intruder's past and future as 'unauthorized impurities,' and carry out dimensional cleansing, exiling them beyond chaos forever!]
Along with those lines of ancient text flashing with glaring gray light, a terrifying dimensional pressure capable of making a Daluo Golden Immortal's Dao foundation collapse on the spot came crashing down like the sky itself, as though it meant to erase Chu Qing entirely from the Underlying Logic of this universe.
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