Even though Shimada Yukimi had not been by Shen Yi's side as long as the other women, she still keenly sensed where the source of that power came from.
"Strange."
"Didn't Winnie say she'd handle this dirty, exhausting work? Why has Lord Shen Yi gone out personally again?"
"And I remember he only went to the Shadow World not long ago, didn't he?"
With these doubts in mind, Shimada Yukimi picked up the communication terminal in her hand and sent a message to the name Long Aoshuang.
At the same time, in places all across Blue Star—not only within Xia Country—many of the women by Shen Yi's side who were still out on missions suddenly found a mysterious, unfathomable gray line appearing around them.
That gray line appeared in a bizarre way, emerging suddenly without even a sound.
Even when they tried to touch it with their hands, the gray line seemed not to exist at all, completely out of reach. Aside from the simple fact that it could be seen, the spatial power Shen Yi had just scattered seemed to have no other useful purpose.
Meanwhile, in Tianjing City, Xia Country.
A total of 168 fixed Spatial Teleportation Nodes were all established at the same moment. Shen Yi's expression paused slightly, then his gaze turned to Winnie beside him.
"Next, you'll draw out and apply the power of the Void-breaking Stones. You only need to spread it around these gray lines, just as I demonstrated to you before. As for binding and restricting the remaining Spatial Teleportation Nodes to space, I'll handle that myself."
As soon as he finished speaking, a pile of Void-breaking Stones that was almost like a mountain suddenly appeared in front of Shen Yi. Not counting the Void-breaking Stones he had already consumed earlier, or