Cooperation III

"But..." La paused before finishing his sentence.

"Only nearby worlds can be opened. Or rather, nearby planets. Do you understand the concept of a planet?"

"I tried many times, fifty, a hundred? Maybe more, too many to remember."

Her expression was calm, but her words revealed a deep sense of despair.

"I understand what a planet is, but why is it like this?" Zhang Rongfang frowned. La was undoubtedly a top-tier expert on his level, but judging from her frustration at having tried for so many years without any results...

Opening this channel might be really, really difficult.

He walked to the edge of the passage and gently touched the cool stone base.

"I calculated for a long time, and the final result is still energy."

"Energy?"

"Yes." La nodded. "The gravity of the White Pupil is too strong. Nothing can resist its pull and attraction. It is this land under our feet that is struggling to resist all of this with its enormous mass and the way it orbits."

"But there's a price to pay. The price is that life on this planet is burning up and declining rapidly," Ra said softly.

"Descending. What does that have to do with the channel?" Zhang Rongfang asked.

"It is related to nature. The energy we use to open the channel is actually extracted from the Earth's core."

"So the more tests are conducted, the more Earth's core energy is extracted, and the more the entire world will accelerate its movement towards the White Pupil," La explained.

"Furthermore, through calculations, I've determined that the passage we encountered last time was merely an experimental accident. If we want to selectively open the entrance to that passage, the world behind it is extremely far away, requiring an enormous amount of energy!"

Her words were actually quite clear.

To escape the terrifying gravity, a massive amount of energy must be used as a propulsion force to break free from this planet.

But now the Earth's core is running low, and using it again might hasten the destruction of everything.

Zhang Rongfang stared at the rotating passageway and fell silent for a moment.

"Also, I don't know if the Instant Tower mentioned it to you. Opening the long-distance passage not only requires a huge amount of energy, but also unlocking the Three Flawless Secret Locks left by the Spirit Eye Clan," Ra continued.

"I don't know why they left this blockade. But opening long-distance passages would be subject to three different degrees and in three different ways of special influence."

"As mentioned before, the Flawless Secret Lock is a technology left behind by the Spirit Eye Clan. Taki mentioned that the key issue is that it's impossible to find." Zhang Rongfang nodded slightly.

"That's the most desperate thing. No matter what, we can only watch helplessly as everything gets closer and worse, and we are powerless to do anything about it," he said in a low voice.

"Therefore, we must gather the strength of everyone," Zhang Rongfang replied in a deep voice.

"Can the passage be opened now?"

"Yes, but only close-range worlds can be accessed. Those worlds are the same as ours, or even worse." Lass shook her head slightly.

"Let's give it a try? I want to see if it works," Zhang Rongfang said earnestly.

"The short-range passage is open, and the backup power can be activated once more. How can you prove that?" La asked doubtfully.

"I want to go in there myself. To see what it's like in other worlds." Zhang Rongfang looked into La's eyes.

La fell silent, seemingly deep in thought.

After a long pause, she nodded in agreement.

"I understand. If this will put your mind at ease."

She walked to the edge of the Copper Mirror Passage, and the furnace in her heart began to pound violently.

A series of Silver Light lit up in her palm, like thin threads, and shot into a gray opening in the Dao Foundation.

The entire Copper Mirror Passage began to tremble slowly, emitting a creaking, grating sound.

It's like a plank of wood that can't bear the weight of an immense force.

"Once activated, it will only last for ten minutes, so be careful," La reminded her.

"Understood!" Zhang Rongfang stared intently at the Daoist Sect.

The gray fog there began to swirl violently.

All the gray began to accelerate, shrink, and quickly condense into a single point at the center.

Pfft! A soft sound suddenly rang out.

All the gray mist inside the door completely disappeared, leaving only a clear, transparent expanse of water.

"You can go in now. This is a world I opened up before and often visit." La withdrew her hand wearily and looked at Zhang Rongfang.

"Thank you." Zhang Rongfang unfurled bat wings behind him, his body floated up, and he lunged forward.

With a flash of red, he had already charged straight into the Copper Mirror Passage gate.

The transparent water inside the door frame rippled slightly, creating small waves, but these quickly faded and disappeared.

"..." Watching Zhang Rongfang disappear, La stood there, lost in thought for a moment.

She didn't know why she was still willing to trust the other person.

Perhaps it was that exaggerated and terrifying ability or talent, or perhaps the other person had followed the same path as him, sharing the same plight.

But regardless, this person, this Bloodline King, has indeed brought a glimmer of new hope and a new expectation.

***A transparent channel formed by water ripples stretched out before Zhang Rongfang's eyes.

Extending to an unseen end.

The passage was 15 meters high and 9 meters wide, just enough for him to spread his wings and enter alone.

He then hovered in the passageway, flying rapidly forward.

There seemed to be no gravity, no air, only an eerie silence and stillness.

Soon, about half a minute later.

A bright white expanse gradually appeared ahead.

A similar circular white light gate is rapidly approaching, located at the end of the passage.

A hint of anticipation flashed in Zhang Rongfang's eyes. The bat wings slowly slowed down and soon hovered gently in front of the white light gate before landing.

"Is this another world, another planet?"

He couldn't even imagine that, even with the advancements in technology in his previous life, traveling to other planets would still require an extremely long time.

Here, Ra only needs to use the Spirit Eye Clan's technology, combined with Ra's own spatial manipulation abilities, to shorten this extremely long distance to just a short time.

"Perhaps it's also because the White Pupil pulled all the planets closer together."

Zhang Rongfang this guess.

Regardless, he was about to enter a completely new and unknown world. This anticipation revealed a strange glint in his eyes as he reached out and slowly touched the white light gate.

Hiss. A finger of his hand automatically separated and flew into the portal and disappeared.

Soon, the finger segment could still feel that it was mostly undamaged.

Zhang Rongfang then leaped forward and rushed into the entire light gate.

A flash of white light suddenly appeared before my eyes.

After his eyes adjusted to the glaring light for a moment, he could immediately see everything clearly.

It's hot! Terribly hot! All I could see was white, all of it was countless Heavenly Light radiating down from the sky.

The terrifying high temperature and Evil Energy radiation rapidly penetrated Zhang Rongfang's body cells, quickly killing all the cells on the surface of his skin.

Even his eyes were completely burned out and he went blind the moment he entered.

"Rise."

Zhang Rongfang's expression remained unchanged as he raised his right hand.

With a bang, his entire right arm instantly turned black and exploded, transforming into countless Black Spirit Thread that wove together a vast black Sky Curtain above his head.

To date, this kind of Sky Curtain is the only thing that can block out Heavenly Light to the greatest extent.

With the Sky Curtain providing shelter, Zhang Rongfang's extensive burns healed rapidly.

The innate ability to Rapid Stress Response begins to take effect.

In a very short time, his skin surface split into generations of various cells.

The most heat-resistant cells survive quickly, while all the other cells die. Then, the cells with the most heat-resistant cells become the core and divide at an accelerated rate.

Soon, Zhang Rongfang's entire body turned a dark red, as if he had no skin and was only flesh and blood.

His right arm transformed into a large Black Umbrella, which he placed above his head to block out the Heavenly Light.

The eyes re-healed and grew in their sockets, producing new, heat-resistant eyeballs.

Only then did he gradually adapt to the environment and realize what kind of place he was in.

He was hovering in mid-air, at a height of about 100 meters.

Beneath our feet lay a vast expanse of reddish-purple rocky ground.

Occasionally, magma can be seen slowly flowing along cracks in the earth, and everywhere there is distorted heat.

Look up.

Above them was the dazzling white Heavenly Light of the sky, unobstructed by any clouds; only an enormous White Pupil occupied the entire sky.

From here, you can even see the white flames on the surface of the White Pupil slightly boiling and dancing.

Countless gaseous flames formed an enormous white sea of fire on the surface of White Pupil's face.

After staring at it for only a few seconds, Zhang Rongfang felt that something was wrong with his eyes.

When the pupils look directly at the White Pupil, the temperature of the eyes begins to rise rapidly again.

Soon after, wisps of white vapor began to emerge from his eye sockets, a strange phenomenon caused by the evaporation and drifting of the liquid inside his eyeballs.

He immediately looked away.

Strangely, the temperature dropped rapidly as soon as he stopped looking at White Pupil.

"Is this the Evil Energy radiation?" Zhang Rongfang sighed. He glanced back at the light gate.

Immediately, he flapped his wings and flew forward at full speed.

Boom! The sound barrier was broken instantly, and then the speed of sound reached two times and three times the speed of sound.

The earth below swept past quickly, gradually blurring into a dark red blur.

His eyes scanned the ground, trying to find any remaining signs of life.

Unfortunately.

There is no one.

There were no living creatures.

Apart from rocks and lava, there was not even a trace of withered, charred wood.

Even while he was in this environment, he could feel his body temperature rising rapidly and uncontrollably.

Over time, all the water in his body will evaporate and the temperature will rise, and he will die here as well.

They flew for an unknown distance, but there was still no living creature on the ground around them.

Only a cluster of buildings, resembling ruins, flashed by below.

But golden lava flowed there, clearly indicating that no living creatures remained.

Zhang Rongfang felt increasingly disheartened as he looked at the photos.

After calculating the time, he ultimately decided to fly back.

At the same time, his body swooped down towards the ground.

He reached out and grabbed a handful of scorched earth from the ground.

The intense heat of the scorched earth burned wisps of smoke onto the surface of his palms, but these smoke quickly dissipated.

The heat insulation layer that evolved on Zhang Rongfang's body surface effectively prevents high-temperature burns.

He looked closely at the black soil, and realized that it wasn't soil at all; it was just countless black powders!

Before long, he flew back to the vicinity of the light gate.

Turn around and look at the desolate land in front of you.

"If there are still living creatures, they might only be found deeper underground."

With this guess in mind, Zhang Rongfang, along with Heitu, turned and entered the portal.

This kind of world may be their future.

He suddenly understood Ra's feelings. Only by truly witnessing the apocalypse and experiencing despair can one understand how agonizing that predicament really is.