The Eternal Heavenly Palace's purple-gold ram crushed the wreckage of the Seventh Heaven's laws, broke through the gray-white mist filling the skies, and thundered into the Eighth Heaven surrounding the Transdimensional Gate. What appeared before Chu Qing was no longer a simple formation barrier, but a terrifying furnace spanning the depths of the void, built from the galactic wreckage of hundreds of millions of destroyed universes. Countless dark-red conduits of causality extended from its four walls, sinking deep into fractures in the void like disgusting, ravenous tentacles, endlessly drawing in the residual origin essence naturally seeping from the myriad worlds of All Heavens.
This was the ugly true face of the Observer Civilization beneath its glamorous guise of "maintaining the transdimensional laws." Drawing on the ancient scrolls his wives had deciphered moments earlier in Stone Ridge's Scripture Pavilion, Chu Qing instantly saw through the nature of this eighth layer, the "origin furnace heaven." They were no selfless guardians of the truth of creation, but a pitiful, hateful swarm of bloodsucking parasites feeding on the multiverse, sustaining their own higher-dimensional lifespans by periodically harvesting the origin essence of epochs. This enormous furnace was the central hub they used to refine the fortune of the myriad worlds.
Bzzzz—!
With a piercing roar, the top of the origin furnace slowly split open into a twisted face covering half a star region. This was the Supreme Commander of the Observer Civilization's outer forces. His incomparably massive body had been forcibly stitched together from the resentment of tens of thousands of epochs and intricate, long-winded higher-dimensional judgment mantras.
"To penetrate the first seven barriers, and even see through the flaws in the patchwork of laws—you truly are an astonishing lower-dimensional variable." The Supreme Commander's hoarse, fanatical divine will shook the entire Lightless Sea, brimming with