Savoring Freedom

Gong Qi tilted his head back and watched the endlessly flowing clouds, yet his remark was completely unrelated: "The light is getting stronger and stronger. Perhaps before long, it will shine across the entire world... You probably wouldn't see such a dazzling sight in the Extreme Domain anywhere else."

Snake Tongue said nothing, meeting him with cold indifference. After all, she could only listen to Gong Qi's descriptions; she could not perceive at all what was happening in the Extreme Domain.

However, Ronan, who was remotely sensing the situation through the Soul Cape, could not help being affected. He knew what "light" Gong Qi was referring to.

Yes, it was the "Extreme Domain Light"—the light and heat emitted by the terrifying source of power Ronan had traced back to through the Demon Rune.

More than four months ago, it had briefly risen into the sky above the Extreme Domain, displaying its power, only to be obscured and isolated by an unfathomably miraculous curtain. As far as Ronan knew, this was true in both the Local Time-Space and that Deep Blue World. The only exception was here.

For some unknown reason, that curtain had not extended its miraculous effect into the Cloud Top World. The light and heat radiated by that terrifying source had continued to spread through the Extreme Domain across the Cloud Top World. Moreover, as time passed, it seemed to be drawing ever closer to the Material Layer.

Whenever Ronan arrived here, he seemed able to hear the Cloud Top World humming and trembling—the prelude to two time-spaces grinding and colliding against one another.

Ronan did not know the cause or nature of it all, but he knew that the Cloud Top World was facing a tremendous upheaval. And Gong Qi, whom he had been targeting all this