An airship hovered above Piyue City Fortress.
Rust Bone Great General sat in the Main Boat's lounge. Before him were two properly installed sleep pods, with Zhou Jiren and Zhong Wei sleeping inside...
"Don't worry. Their conditions are stable."
The main screen displayed their heart rates and mental fluctuations.
Sky Eye had used hypnosis to forcibly drag the two of them into the dream realm. It was the best solution she could think of.
She believed her Junior Brother could break the deadlock alone.
After restarting one hundred and forty times, her teacher and Zhong Wei would now both become burdens on Junior Brother's path to breaking the deadlock. To completely shatter this Restart Dream Realm, her mission was not to leave the Great Wall with Gu Shen, but to protect the other outsiders, including herself.
Origin Will had to abide by the rules of the world.
Once it realized it could not stop Gu Shen...
It would surely do everything in its power to kill the other outsiders, trigger another restart, and reset Gu Shen's progress to zero!
"Several days have already passed."
Rust Bone said in a deep voice, "A new round of restarting hasn't begun yet. Clearly, Gu Shen has successfully gone deep into the Old World."
Some time ago, intelligence had arrived from the northeastern frontier fortress.
Sky Eye had detected a suspicious substance landing and exploding a hundred miles outside the fortress. That substance had originally posed an enormous threat to the frontier, but before the alarm could be relayed inward, it simply vanished. Because it had all happened too quickly, Sky Eye could only send back a blurry image. It seemed to be a massive meteor burning with Light Fire.
The instant Rust Bone saw the footage, he knew what had happened there.
That