The Vast-Universe Boundary Law that had pierced through Takamagahara sent Night Guy's white dragon plummeting from the ten-thousand-zhang skies of Jianzhou Country toward the lower reaches of the Heaven-Piercing River amid a roaring howl!
At the dragon's throat, Masato's body had already begun to disintegrate!
"Am I... going to die?"
"Haha... but before I die, getting to see the world beyond Takamagahara was worth it!"
To prevent defections, Branch Family members were forbidden from leaving Takamagahara for life without special permission. The Heaven-Piercing River's lethal waters were the gods' prison!
The Branch Family were a flock of Caged Birds raised by the gods!
At death's door, Masato activated his Byakugan. Compared to the vastness of heaven and earth, mountains and rivers that one glance could encompass were but an inch wide; compared to Takamagahara's grandeur, they were as tiny as grains of sand!
Yet for Masato, that fleeting span of time and space, as small as a grain of sand, was the place he had yearned for all his life but could never reach!
He etched the mountains and rivers into his mind, then closed his eyes and calmly accepted death's arrival!
"Tian Dou, junior brother..."
But at that moment of utter doom, a white spirit body manifested from the white dragon's "reverse scale" beneath its neck. It stepped onto the dragon's nape and rose toward the breach in the Vast-Universe Boundary Law high above!
After the spirit body departed, the white dragon's descent abruptly slowed!
Masato's pupils shrank. "Could that thing that just left have been...?"
Seizing that sliver of hope, an orange-red swastika-shaped curse mark appeared on Masato's forehead!
—Life-and-Death Talisman: Release!
BOOM!!!!
The white dragon crashed into the river, kicking up a thousand towering waves!
The massive whirlpool it formed reached straight to the bottom of the