At the northern edge of the Pseudo-Hongmeng Zone stood a barrier.
No one had dared touch this place before. The High-Dimensional Decay Law clung to the barrier's surface; a Mortal Shedding cultivator could brush against it and lose his True Spirit outright.
Now the place was bustling.
"Fuck, easy! Stop shoving me!"
"Move, move! It's time for me to blow myself up!"
Boom!
With a muffled blast, a Third Step Dimension Master Realm player detonated his Dharma Aspect right in front of the gray-white Bony Barrier.
When the energy cleared, only a grain-sized bone chip had fallen from it.
"That's it? What a rip-off. Now I've got a ten-minute respawn cooldown!"
The player's soul drifted toward the Abyss Respawn Point in a streak of white light, still cursing.
The people behind him ignored him. One reached out, snatched up the chip, and stuffed it into his Portable Space.
"A grain's worth is still money! Turn it in to the system and you can get at least ten days of secluded cultivation!"
Nearby, a Wanderer in a tattered robe crouched with a Homemade Bone Drill in his hand, gritting his teeth as he drove it into the barrier.
The bit was red-hot and smoking, but it had not left so much as a mark on the surface.
He studied the bit for a moment, pulled out its worn-down end, tossed it aside, and took another from his pack. Then he went back to drilling.
Farther off, several veteran Blue Star players stood in a circle. They had set a Bone Spur Fragment down as a pad and were hammering the Bone Membrane beside it, trying to loosen a section.
"Stop hitting it. It's no use. That membrane's part of the barrier."
"So what if it is? We just have to knock