All phenomena froze.
At the very instant the countdown reached its final second, support from his teammates descended from the sky.
The authority won from Border Customs—the power known as the Abyssal Threshold—was itself an application of the Great Arcanum developed specifically for high-level illegal border crossers.
It mobilized the framework and arcanum covering the entire realm, artificially dividing and sealing off an area with the power of the Three Great Blockades, ultimately forming a prison that was difficult to breach.
Within it, no unauthorized person could mobilize Source Matter, nor could they resist this suppressive force from the Present Realm.
Likewise, the barrier that looked like a sheet of glass was something that even the firepower of an entire army group could not breach from outside.
Members of the Graveyard of the Unreturning, criminals wandering the borderlands, countless Ascenders returned from Hell, and even all manner of bizarre Hell Relics could not shake its foundation.
This was authority established upon the power of the Present Realm.
And a lock from the Astronomical Society could only be opened with a key from the Astronomical Society.
Unless one possessed Astronomical Society senior authority likewise registered within the Great Arcanum, the only way to lift it was a frontal assault with power equivalent to the level of a natural enemy burning correction value.
Unfortunately, the military possessed neither high-level authority nor natural-enemy-level power in the Regeneration Plan.
In this plan, the only parties with authority equal to Ai Qing's were the Office of the Director and the Judicial Department. Beyond them, even the Financial Weaving Bureau and the Tax Department had no right to interfere with the Abyssal Threshold's operation.
Now, an absolute blockade descended from the heavens.
There was no need to aim.
Locking onto Huai Shi alone was enough.
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