See Through

Eileen had not understood what Yu Sheng meant at all, but she had long since grown used to it.

Huli's curiosity was clearly greater than the little doll's. At this moment, she had changed from a great fox as large as two cars into a small fox over a meter long. Trotting alongside Yu Sheng, she tilted her head up. "Benefactor, do you mean we can directly affect the Alice doll's main body from within this 'Time Barrier'?"

"Yes. Luo gave me an idea." Yu Sheng lowered his head and glanced at the little demon fox scampering by his feet. "She said the boundary bridge originally needed to take root in a precise spacetime structure. The failed descent three thousand seven hundred years ago was caused by this loophole. Now, the heretics of the Hermetic Society have found a way to plug that hole. No matter how they did it, one thing is obvious: the obstacle we've encountered here is connected to this 'time anchor.'"

He raised his head and looked toward the open stretch of land at the foot of the mountain.

"The Eden Gate sent us here, which means its power has already extended to this time and place. Don't think of it as merely a gate. Imagine it as a tree. The 'soil' in which this tree is rooted is the dual structure of time and space. Spatially, it is rooted in the planet Holy Realm; temporally, its roots extend to the 11XX year of the Holy Calendar... We're standing on one of those 'roots' right now."

Huli tilted her head and muttered thoughtfully, "So that's why the Eden Gate's defense mechanism is also part of the Eden Gate..."

Yu Sheng suddenly stopped.

"This should be the area." He narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke softly after