Zhu Di stood on Black Tortoise's back, surveying his surroundings with a grave expression. An invisible net inside the enemy planet enveloped the entire world.
More precisely, its defenses were concentrated directly against the incoming attacks.
Both Daoism and Buddhism possessed a special technique-Heavenly Eye Opening.
The heavenly eye could see through illusions. With the aid of both traditions' heavenly eye manuals, he saw a chilling sight.
Countless transparent beings clung together, slowly writhing beneath his heavenly eye's gaze.
How could he describe these beings? They resembled a kind of invisible energy.
Zhu Di wondered, Energy that cultivated into spirits?
Their interiors drifted about like gas, while a transparent protective layer covered their exteriors. These creatures' protective layers overlapped, forming a bizarre barrier.
This barrier was incredibly tough, immune to magic and physical attacks, and could reflect attacks back at their source.
Moreover, the amount of gaseous substance drifting inside these creatures varied, as did their transparency. Perhaps these differences distinguished their ranks.
Zhu Di and the others had also opened their heavenly eyes aboard the ships, but they had seen nothing unusual.
The beings fitted together as tightly as the most precision-engineered components, making them impossible to distinguish from afar.
As Zhu Di and the others approached, the beings seemed not to have noticed anything amiss. A transparent doorway actually formed in their path.
Once Zhu Di saw it clearly, he immediately transmitted a message to the Deity Transformation Cultivators, telling them not to act rashly. They were to pretend they had noticed nothing and wait for his signal.
Zhu Di slowly advanced, arranging for several Deity Transformation Cultivators to shift their positions slightly downward along the way.
Sure enough, a transparent doorway opened in the cultivators' path.
The enemy intended to let them into the planet deliberately.
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