"Your strength is far too weak compared to mine. You need to know your place, human," the middle-aged man said slowly.
Zi Jing grabbed Lu Yin's arm and shoved him aside, glaring furiously at the middle-aged man. "Ke Jian, if you want me to come back alive, let him go."
Ke Jian looked puzzled. "Why do you care about him?"
Zi Jing's face flushed. "He—he saved my life."
Ke Jian looked at Lu Yin. "Is it affection?"
At that moment, the Starlink Great World began to shake. Ke Jian looked up, his expression grave. "The Half-Ancestors of this space-time have noticed us." As he spoke, the bead at his heart turned bright white. A force flowed from it down his arm. Ke Jian raised his hand and slashed through the air, tearing open the void. He grabbed Zi Jing and Lu Yin and stepped into the rift, disappearing.
After he was gone, Qing Ping emerged. Looking at the empty tower roof, he said, "Safe travels, junior brother."
The universe contained countless Parallel Space-Times. Some people divided the universe into multidimensional spaces, with time and space as the coordinates of those dimensions, which could be expanded without limit.
On the expanded Starry sky map of the Parallel Universe, the larger the space-time, the greater the resistance to entering it. Tiny Parallel Space-Times like the Eternal Kingdom offered almost no resistance.
After Ke Jian tore open the void and brought Zi Jing and Lu Yin through, a force emerged from the bright white bead at his heart. It isolated Zi Jing and Lu Yin from the void and pushed them forward. In an instant, the two went from the bright space atop the tower to an even brighter space.
The space was filled with metal. Bright light shone on his face