Zhang Chen sneered at the combined strike of the crowd and silently lowered his head. There was no need to watch any further.
Sure enough, as everyone's combined attack landed, the World Barrier suddenly shook. Layer upon layer of ripples spread through the void, but they only undulated like water for a moment before an even stronger rebounding force came crashing back. Everyone was sent flying, tumbling backward through the air and vomiting blood.
"Now!" A crafty gleam flashed in Zhang Chen's eyes. They're all attacking together. I'll take this chance to draw away the Eighteenth Heaven. Once it disappears, if they question me, I'll pin the whole thing on them. I'll turn the tables and say they shattered the anchor linking the two worlds, causing the Eighteenth Heaven to vanish into thin air.
Although the Eighteenth Heaven will be drawn away, the Nineteenth Heaven and Seventeenth Heaven should still be visible across the Endless Void. Then I can reverse black and white, claiming those two heavens are the Eighteenth Heaven, and that the Endless Void was caused by the backlash from the severed anchor.
With that thought, Zhang Chen secretly instructed the Queen Mother of the West, "Your Majesty, please draw out the Spiritual World before us."
As Zhang Chen's words fell, the Queen Mother of the West, hidden within Ice Hell, suddenly vanished. When she reappeared, she was already in the Endless Void where the Spiritual World and the Material World were linked. She stretched out one hand toward the Eighteenth Heaven of the Spiritual World. Under her palm, the Eighteenth Heaven gradually shrank, becoming a marble-like bead that she held in her hand.
"That is..."
The people within the Material World passage had only just steadied themselves when they saw an unseen force seemingly twist the void.