Piercing Through

The other end of the jade talisman went quiet for two seconds.

"Sounds pretty thrilling."

Ye Changqing laughed twice.

"All right, no problem on my end. Send the signal whenever, and I'll open the floodgates whenever."

After cutting off the sound transmission, Zhou Xuan turned to look at Second Brother.

"Get on board. Time to work."

Second Brother let out an excited howl and scrambled onto the Apocalypse on all fours. Yang Mie and Qin Keqing followed close behind.

Ghostly blue flames sprayed from the starship's stern, and its massive hull rose into the air, turning into a streak of light as it shot straight toward the northernmost edge of the Western Desolate Region.

High in the sky, astral winds howled.

Inside the Apocalypse's control room, Zhou Xuan stood before the main console and brought up the high-dimensional Scanning Module.

Dense streams of data flickered across the screen, representing the spatial fluctuations at the edge of the Cage Realm.

"We're close to the World Barrier."

Zhou Xuan watched the energy field on the screen gradually warp.

"Second Brother, go keep an eye on the energy output valve. Don't let that pipe crack ahead of time."

Second Brother thumped his chest and promised, "Relax. The pipe I welded is harder than Yang Mie's skull."

Yang Mie rolled his eyes from behind and did not answer.

The Starship hovered before the gray, murky World Barrier.

Ahead lay a chaotic expanse of void. No tangible barrier could be seen with the naked eye, but the moment divine sense probed toward it, it would be directly shredded by a vast, icy power of rules.

This was the Heavenly Dao Shackles that had trapped the two regions for tens of thousands of years.

Zhou Xuan walked to a corner of the control room, where there