Chu Qing stood alone beside the carved white marble railing on the deck of the Heavenly Palace, his hands clasped behind his back. Clad in white robes like fresh snow, his sleeves fluttered faintly in the breath of the void. Slowly, he spread his long, powerful palm. Floating above it was a fragment of the Bronze Star Chart that exuded Primordial Chaos Mother Qi, along with the final words of an ancient civilization he had just extracted from the shattered core of the colossal vessel. The earth-shaking truth concerning the "Transdimensional Gate" and the Ultimate Observer behind the scenes was enough to make any Daluo titan in the starry seas beyond the domain have their Dao heart quake—or even collapse on the spot. Yet Chu Qing, who stood at the Summit of Myriad Dimensions, remained calm. There was not the slightest trace of fear in his abyss-deep eyes; instead, they revealed an ever greater air of supreme composure, as though all laws arose from him and he stood serenely beyond them all.
At that moment, a lingering strand of high-dimensional scouting Divine Sense suddenly surged forth from the deepest reaches of the void. Like a venomous snake lurking in the dark, it saw that Chu Qing dared remain aboard the ark and immediately unleashed a piercing, icy mental shriek. It sought to carve a spiritual chain from the high-dimensional plane of observation into a gap in Chu Qing's mind, transforming into a line of grim crimson runes that crashed down upon him:
[Watcher's Curse: All who touch the secrets of the Transdimensional shall have their souls eternally fall into the Stratum Furnace!]
The flashing, blood-red words carried a suffocatingly tyrannical aura of annihilation, attempting to tear Chu Qing's soul apart directly on the spiritual level.
Faced with this