"Brother..."
Chi Yao bit her lower lip.
Unable to abandon Tan Lin, she took the same course of action as Audishiya,
but her purpose was plainly purer.
Whoosh...
With that thought, the Dao resonance of her innate Dao embryo surged around her.
Three thousand Dao threads writhed like living things, furiously battering the Dao-patterned walls of the independent barrier realm.
Hum... hum...
Yet the barrier's Dao patterns remained utterly unmoved.
Time trickled past.
Worried about Tan Lin's plight, she broke out in a fine sweat across her forehead, her face growing steadily paler.
Finally, she seemed to think of something. Using the "lotus leaf" the Old Woodcutter had given her as a medium, she magnified her constitution's wondrous properties and merged with the Dao resonance here, forming a faint, immortal-white curtain of light around herself.
It gradually fused with the barrier's light, and then she passed through.
However,
the independent barrier realms in the Grand Reward Grounds were scattered like stars across a chessboard, isolated from one another, with no connections between them.
The instant Chi Yao stepped out of her own barrier realm, she found herself on a desolate, deathly still battlefield among the stars.
This was the turbulent region between the independent barrier realms.
It teemed with terrifying fragments of Dao laws left behind by the Supreme Battlefield ages ago, along with annihilation astral winds. Danger lurked everywhere; a single careless moment could leave her dead and her Dao extinguished!
"Brother... where are you?"
Chi Yao focused her senses, but the distance was too great. She could only determine a rough direction from the earlier shock waves, not sense Tan Lin's exact location.
In the end,
she could only follow that approximate bearing and struggle onward in one direction.
Along the way, annihilation astral winds howled, spatial fissures