The True Perception Barrier!

At this moment, time itself seemed to have stopped.

Lu Yang stood quietly where he was. Old Dragon Lord was to his left, Gangxing Budao True Lord before him, and Sky Soaring behind him. He was beset from both front and rear.

Almost simultaneously, countless Mist Barriers shattered completely.

Things that had once been hidden, things Lu Yang had instinctively overlooked—certain glaringly obvious cruxes—now all revived, turning into a flood of thoughts.

Yet it had come at the worst possible time.

For this was a life-or-death moment. This sudden realization was not merely too late; it would even interfere with his judgment between life and death!

Yet Lu Yang could not suppress it.

It was like floodwaters suddenly bursting through a dike. With the Mist Barriers gone, his thoughts poured forth at last. The process itself was irreversible.

'What flawless calculations!'

At this moment, even as the one being plotted against, Lu Yang could not help murmuring his praise, because this was not a trap arranged on the spur of the moment.

Sky Soaring had been laying the groundwork from the very beginning.

'Because there was one question I had never paid attention to. A thought like it had never even lingered in my mind.'

That was the state of Covered Lamp Fire!

That was right. Covered Lamp Fire had indeed been devoured by him—but what happened after that devouring? Had the Fruit Position collapsed, or had only its mysteries vanished?

'From beginning to end, I never considered that question.'

'Or rather, from the start, I simply assumed that the Fruit Position had already been destroyed, that it was gone. That was why I believed there was no fundamental conflict between Sky Soaring and me.'

After all, the Fruit Position was gone; the wood was already in the boat. What