It had to be admitted: this was Yu Lian's first pursuit of this kind in either lifetime, and it was quite a challenge.
In a place where the illusory realm intersected with the material world, he couldn't simply make a small leap through the force field and zip dozens or even hundreds of meters away as he could in the material universe. Leaping through walls and across pools would have been child's play there. But here, the moment he tried to open a temporary dimensional passage, he felt powerful spatial currents surging toward him, swirling around his body. It was as though invisible demonic hands from another world were trying to drag him into a bottomless abyss.
Yu Lian could more or less guess why. This so-called Solitary Realm was a pocket dimension that the Snake's Alliance Leader had cut out of the illusory realm using tremendous power. It was already saturated with the illusory realm's "scent."
And that raised the question: the illusory realm was a "non-real," "non-material" world made up of psionic energy, a world beyond the reach of ordinary physical concepts. In that wondrous pocket dimension, physical distances of thousands of miles could be crossed in an instant, while a place just a step away could be as distant as the ends of the earth.
A force-field leap exploited subtle psionic manipulation of gravity to create the effect of spatial displacement. Using it in the illusory realm, where even the concept of "space" was debatable, would inevitably cause chaos.
So he had no choice but to overcome the problem through sheer willpower. Since he couldn't cross the line of fire with a spatial leap, he would have to rely on his "elemental body" to withstand it head-on.
After all, he'd had plenty of similar experiences when the