Wherever the vertical eye swept, the gray mist permeating the air seemed to turn transparent. The faint traces of residual energy on the ground, the subtle folds and ripples of space itself—all were magnified and analyzed, laid bare before Zhu Xingyan's sight.
He examined everything with utmost care, sweeping across the area inch by inch without overlooking the slightest anomaly. The flames burning within his vertical eye grew ever fiercer.
Wu Jianghan held his breath at the side, not daring to cause the slightest disturbance. Sword Qi lingered around him without erupting, ready at any moment to deal with any unforeseen danger.
Time trickled by. The vertical eye between Zhu Xingyan's brows began to tremble faintly, as if it could no longer hold on. Just as Wu Jianghan's heart sank and he thought their judgment had been wrong—
Zhu Xingyan's tightly pressed lips suddenly curved upward, and a smile of relief and surprise appeared on his face.
"Found it. It really is here!"
As his words fell, the vertical eye between his brows erupted with an unprecedentedly intense radiance, locking firmly onto a certain point in the void ahead.
Within the vision of the Crimson Sun Delusion Breaking Pupil, the spatial structure at that point revealed an extremely subtle distortion and overlap entirely out of place with its surroundings. It was like a membrane perfectly fused with space, covering an invisible opening.
"Open for me!"
Zhu Xingyan was invigorated. He withdrew his Magic Seal with his right hand, spread his five fingers toward the spatial anomaly locked onto by his vertical eye, grabbed through the air, then violently tore outward to both sides as though ripping apart a painting.
That grab and tear was not mere brute force. It contained his understanding of laws and the power of space, while