Outside the Eternal Night Realm, currents of chaos slowly surged like black tides. There were no storms, no thunder, only an almost eternal silence.
Yuqing Yuanshi's avatar hovered amid the chaos, his gaze piercing layer upon layer of mist-shrouded laws to settle on the World Barrier ahead, wrapped in countless layers of Heavenly Dao Laws.
The Eternal Night Realm's barrier differed from those of the Earth Immortal Realm and the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Its surface was covered by an exceptionally intricate grand array of laws.
The array's patterns resembled countless sleeping black chains, sealing the entire world deep within Chaos.
Traps of karmic backlash were interwoven among those chains. Any being who tried to touch or tear through the barrier by force would immediately trigger the Heavenly Dao's alarms.
Yuqing Yuanshi's avatar tentatively touched the edge of the World Barrier with a faint strand of Heaven-Opening Axe Intent.
The instant that strand of Heaven-Opening Axe Intent touched the barrier, the grand array of laws silently devoured it.
He did not continue trying to force his way through the array, for the moment his axe intent dissipated, he had clearly sensed the alarm mechanism hidden deep within it.
Should any stronger power touch the barrier, the Heavenly Dao Origin Space would receive an alarm in an instant.
"Just as expected..." Yuqing Yuanshi's avatar murmured, yet there was no disappointment in his eyes.
"This world's defenses are far more formidable than the Mountain and Sea Realm's.
"The Heavenly Dao's true trump card is probably here."
He tried to find that wisp of an aura bound to him by fate.
But the array on the World Barrier stood like walls of bronze and iron, sealing every trace of the Eternal Night Realm's aura inside.
Only that wisp of light had pierced through