After following the causal chain formed by the Simplification Dao Wave to shatter the prying giant eye and pinpoint its source, Chu Qing stood calmly before the Dragon-Head Ramming Prow of the Eternal Heavenly Palace. The immense Purple-Gold Hull erupted with dazzling light from countless Dao patterns. Like a colossal blade cleaving through an age-old night, it carved a Void Tunnel tens of millions of li wide through the depths of the void.
After only a few breaths of travel, something vast enough to blot out the sky appeared in the abyss ahead. It was no ordinary stellar fortress, but a gigantic floating stronghold forged from high-dimensional crystal and twisted logic runes—the Seventh Observation Outpost. Countless cold, unfeeling mechanical arrays surrounded it, radiating a deathly pressure that seemed to tear apart the laws of the three-dimensional universe.
As the Eternal Heavenly Palace bore down on the fortress, thousands of alarms shrieked within it. The outpost's defensive core whirred furiously. Amid a high-dimensional roar crackling with mechanical static, a phantom of the Fortress Archon rose into the void and looked coldly down at the white-robed figure on the Palace's deck:
"Low-dimensional madman! You dare trace us to an outer fortress of the Supreme Sanctuary? Did you think tearing apart one Eradication Decree gave you leave to run wild here?!"
Before the words had faded, tens of thousands of crystal arrays above the fortress flared a piercing scarlet. Knowing they could not match Chu Qing in a contest of raw power, the defenders turned to the Observer Civilization's specialty: traps of logic. They meant to imprison the entire Eternal Heavenly Palace in a crack between space and time with a causal paradox. Dense high-dimensional script wove itself into a boundless net of causality, descending with the bone-chilling force of judgment:
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