The instant I broke through the exit, True Immortal qi whooshed out from inside, nearly blowing me outside. Chen Taixian had originally been charging upward, but the surge of immortal qi sent him straight back down!
I immediately flew into the entrance, then flicked my longsword upward and sealed the metal plate over it once more. Yet that abundant True Immortal qi still squeezed out through the cracks! Clearly, the pressure of immortal qi here was truly beyond belief!
Boom! Boom!
Beneath my feet, Chen Taixian continued striking the metal plate at the bottom with his broken sword. But without the Heaven-Scourging Divine Sword's terrifying power and abundant dao force, he could only remain below for now. After all, breaking through the entrance had already consumed a great deal of my dao force!
I looked around, carefully observing my surroundings. I saw that this pitch-black area was covered in Grand Arrays. Line after line of circuitry converged at the center, not far from where I stood. The entrance I had pried open with my sword had not severed even a portion of the transport-belt circuitry, so it had not caused much impact on the entire Grand Array. It was still actively absorbing energy!
Following the central location with my eyes, I saw the gathered energy travel upward along a massive pillar. Above my head, a patch of blackness was slowly rotating, as though it were building up some kind of power. That must be where the "eyeball" was located!
Holding the Heaven-Scourging Divine Sword, I swung it at the pillar without hesitation. As long as I smashed this pillar apart, the eyeball would no longer be able to function, and the giant cannon naturally could not be activated!
However, when my energy struck the pillar, it instead generated a tremendous