After listening to his father's long lecture, Weiwei uncertainly turned toward the smaller crocodile beside him—his mother. The crocodile nodded in a remarkably human fashion.
"Listen to your father."
"Rrr!"
Weiwei gave a low growl, opened his blood-filled maw, and sucked in a deep breath. His belly swelled slightly, and he shot into the air as though launched from the ground, slamming a claw toward the empty space above!
Just before his claw landed.
A barrier appeared in midair.
The heaven-earth barrier, formed from countless heptagons, covered an area several thousand meters across.
Smack!
With a low growl, Weiwei struck it with all his strength.
Yet...
His previously infallible means of breaking formations seemed to have failed. In the past, no matter what formation he faced, Weiwei could shatter it with a single swipe. Now, however, the "Fallen Firmament" barrier merely trembled slightly.
As though nothing had happened.
Weiwei fell to the ground and gave a dejected whimper. Clearly, expecting him to smash the Fallen Firmament apart was unrealistic.
"Buck up!"
The larger crocodile beside him sounded exasperated. "You're the Mortal Domain Beast Pavilion Lord, one of the Mortal Domain Senior Officials. Why are you still acting like a child, giving up the moment you run into a little difficulty?"
"When the Domain Lord fired his Heavenly Dao Cannon at the barrier, didn't it only tremble slightly then, too?"
"You're already doing very well."
"That one swipe of yours saved the Mortal Domain hundreds of millions of eerie stones."
"Come on, keep going."
"Maybe after a few dozen or a few hundred attempts, you'll manage it."
Hearing this, Weiwei rallied again. His eyes shone as he looked up at the slowly fading heaven-earth barrier overhead.
And so.
On this Protruding Platform twenty thousand kilometers above the ground.
A crocodile kept