It Really Was Impossible to Leave-This Is an Insult to My Intelligence

In the void, pitch-black Inverted Pyramids blended into the backdrop. Across a million miles of empty space, it seemed as though there was nothing at all. The Array Cluster maintained only its most basic defenses. Yet in the direction of the battlefield, those with exceptional gifts could see what seemed like an incomparably massive net ahead, blocking every path from the battlefield to the second layer.

The Outer Battlefield had likewise fallen deathly silent. The fighting was over, and not even a single corpse could be seen.

A strange creature shaped like a Horned Dragon, over a thousand zhang long and composed entirely of black mist, prowled across the battlefield. It followed the edge of that great net and soon stopped at one spot.

There had originally been a hole here. The core sections of the three Inverted Pyramids that formed this place had been destroyed, but now they had been repaired. They looked no different from before.

The enormous Horned Dragon made of black mist opened its mouth and spat out a black metal fragment covered in runes. After the fragment melted, it slowly merged into the Horned Dragon's body.

Then the massive Horned Dragon suddenly shattered, transforming into countless tiny black-mist snakes no thicker than fingers. They slowly approached the great net.

A faint divine light flashed and vanished. The countless little black-mist Horned Dragons silently crossed the boundary and entered the range protected by the Array Cluster.

The little snakes seemed to reveal cruel smiles as they allowed their bodies to drift slowly forward through the void.

After an unknown length of time, the snakes, gathered into a cloud of black mist, slowly neared one of the Inverted Pyramids—one of the three Qin Yang had repaired before.

The original repair had merely restored it upon its former