Seeing them gesturing at thin air, occasionally pulling out spirit talismans and the like, their faces filled with shock, Jiu Ming could not help wondering what they were doing.
"Shall we go eavesdrop?" Jiu Ming casually tore open a Gap beside them, and the three stepped inside. These Onmyoji seemed fairly capable—enough to handle some mid-level yokai—but after listening for a while, Jiu Ming's expression turned strange. How should he put it? These people actually wanted to break the barrier...
Clearly, they had discovered how extraordinary this barrier was. That guiding, positioning power alone was highly unusual. No matter where one was, any capable being outside the Great Barrier could sense its location, and that trait was even more pronounced for nonhuman beings.
But breaking the Great Barrier... were they dreaming?
Still, letting them do this would delay the Great Barrier's stabilization. Once it fully stabilized, they would probably have trouble even finding its edge. By then, the Great Barrier's nature would become like that of the Super Energy Crystal—an existence within the "illusory realm."
Unlike now, when a few special methods could let one directly make contact with the Great Barrier.
"Hi! Good afternoon!"
Jiu Ming suddenly jumped out of the Gap, startling several of them. Who had not heard of Gaps? Generally speaking, wherever a Gap appeared, it meant that the Gap Yokai—someone, or rather some yokai, whom even certain gods would rather not provoke—was nearby.
Mm, but the one who had appeared did not seem to be that old blonde yokai... In that case...
These people attacked without the slightest courtesy. The techniques they displayed immediately reduced the boy before them to a cloud of gray mist... Then the backs of their heads throbbed, and everything went black.
"Tch. A bunch of glass-cannon Mages, and you still