Peak Fifth Step? Sorry, We Needed a Gatekeeper

The instant the pale humanoid stepped out of the Bone Wall, every stray sound vanished.

The void storm fell silent.

All Players and Wanderers faced a formidable enemy.

Several Cosmic Bubbles Li Qingcang had just led people to drag back also hung in the void, the cracks on their outer walls not yet having time to close.

Inside the Great Universe, the golden-robed elder of the Heavenly Profound Realm and a group of native cultivators looked up at the figure. Their minds had gone blank, and they had even forgotten to activate the World-Barrier Formation.

That thing had no facial features, no face at all.

At its chest, a Royal Immunity Mark woven from black-and-white Laws burned quietly.

It merely stood there.

The timelines within a hundred thousand light-years were severed, and Causal Logic was crushed into a sheet of wastepaper.

Even the white resurrection light the Abyss System granted Players dimmed by half upon nearing its domain.

Outside the Rift Valley, someone swallowed with difficulty.

"The... the panel is all question marks... Can we still respawn?"

The Player beside him, usually the most fond of cracking jokes, kept his mouth shut and did not dare respond.

He had just been shouting about snatching Building Material. Now, even though his premium pickaxe had smashed onto his toe, he did not bend down to pick it up.

Farther away, an elderly Wanderer cultivator who had only recently joined the Abyss took half a step back. His heel struck a Divine Corpse bone spur, and his entire body trembled violently.

He stared at the figure, his lips turning pale.

"Peak Fifth Step..."

After those five words left his mouth, his voice broke off.

The Fifth Step had its own hierarchy.

No matter how talented Huang Yan, Gu Shan, and the others were,