Descending upon the Western Continent
Though there had been a few twists and turns, Lieyun and He Ping still successfully infiltrated the Western Continent.
The two expended some effort to pass through that enormous spatial gateway. As their figures crossed that strange point of light, both were enveloped by a powerful mass of energy, tearing through the atmosphere like meteors as they traveled onward.
In that instant, Great Sage Lieyun and He Ping felt as if they had entered the depths of a black hole. Even when they extended their senses, all they found in every direction were violent force fields.
Boom!
No one knew how much time had passed before he and Lieyun suddenly shuddered from head to toe, feeling the resistance around them abruptly ease.
At that moment, it was as though they had torn through a layer of light membrane and crossed into the nine heavens' astral wind layer. Their thoughts spread out and sensed everything around them, revealing that they had arrived in outer space.
This should have been an extremely high altitude. The astral winds raged all around them, and the heat generated by their friction with surrounding matter would ordinarily have been enough to melt metal.
This was likely a region close to outer space, an atmospheric layer where intense radiation, high-energy particles, the continent's heaven-and-earth vital energy, and magnetic field energy underwent violent reactions.
Since ancient times, only Dao-entry cultivators who had cultivated relevant techniques or possessed exceptional constitutions were qualified to come here, drawing astral energy from the nine heavens' astral qi to temper themselves and refine magical artifacts. Only cultivators whose Primordial Spirits had reached Great Cheng were qualified to venture deeper within.
However, for experts of He Ping and Lieyun's caliber, even setting foot upon the sun's surface would have