The tundra was swept by swirling snow.
It was as cold here as ever.
But some things had changed. During this time, the Snow Cage, long silent and deserted, had become quite "lively." More than a dozen Source Energy Airships crossed the border of the Northern Continent and hovered grandly above the prison.
The Traveler had smashed through Tundra Prison's iron walls.
This prison, the most dangerous in the Eastern Continent, held a great number of high-risk Transcendents and loss-of-control cases... The destruction of its iron walls was no trivial matter.
This breach of the Snow Cage had originated in the Northern Continent.
To express her apologies, the Empress personally dispatched the Cast Snow Grand Duke, who brought Northern Continent Transcendents to the tundra to assist the Five Great Families in rebuilding the prison... Most things in this world were easy to destroy and difficult to repair.
The leaders of this restoration project were the Cast Snow Grand Duke, Lin Chou, and the Gu family's young master, Gu Nanfeng. Their preliminary estimate was that although the iron walls had shattered in just an instant when the Traveler crashed into them, restoring them perfectly would take at least a year.
The reason was that when the Traveler had tried to draw the "Sky Sheath," he had brought out countless fragments!
That "Stone Sword" was the key divine artifact suppressing the entire Snow Cage. The power it radiated could weaken fluctuations in Transcendent Source Matter... causing the prisoners at the heart of the prison to gradually lose control over their Source Matter.
In other words.
The Sky Sheath itself was equivalent to a "purification field." All Transcendent power would be stripped away by it... For a Transcendent, there was no prison more terrifying than this.
Imprisoning a fourth-tier Transcendent near the Sky