The Eternal Heavenly Palace crushed the wreckage strewn across the fifth layer's cognitive blind spot, broke through veil after veil of chaos mist, and sailed into a bizarre realm of absolute stillness. There were none of the deafening, arrogant roars from before, nor any formation light blotting out the sky. Only a deathly gray-white silence surrounded them.
Yet Chu Qing, who could perceive all things through his Daluo realm, keenly sensed the lethal danger hidden beneath that peaceful surface in the very first instant he entered.
The sixth layer, "Absolute Rules Heaven," and the seventh, "Causal Loop Heaven," had actually been forcibly fused by the supreme governors of the Observer Civilization! This was no longer a simple clash of magical power, but a silent "double strangulation." The breezes and dust in the void, and even the trajectory along which Chu Qing's Daluo Dao Fruit operated, were being invisibly rewritten by rules. An ordinary Daluo who fell into this formation would have their cultivation stripped away in an instant, and even their historical existence would be completely erased.
"You abandoned those crude energy bombardments and switched to assimilating me through the universe's underlying operating rules?" Standing atop the Heavenly Palace's dragon head, Chu Qing swept his profound gaze across the gray-white space, a cold smile curling his lips. "It seems you self-proclaimed higher-dimensional Observers have finally grown a little wiser."
Within the gray-white void ahead, a faceless humanoid phantom slowly emerged, its entire body pieced together from countless flickering higher-dimensional runes.
"Lower-dimensional breaker of deadlocks, I am the Observer Civilization's Origin Scribe." The phantom radiated the extreme arrogance of one who controlled truth. "The first five blockades were merely crude barriers meant to wear down your spirit. This realm was woven from creation truth copied from the Ultimate Source long ago.