"Uh... since this Great Dao Cage can't be cut open."
"Then... I might as well make it sturdier..."
Gu Changqing's voice drifted lightly, carrying an intoxication that had lingered since time immemorial, as though he were merely discussing something utterly trivial.
Yet that single, airy remark struck Lord Taisu's ears like a world-destroying thunderclap exploding high above the Nine Heavens.
"What?!"
Deep within the Secret Realm, Lord Taisu's pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints.
The smug delight that had filled his aged face only moments before froze solid in that instant, as though encased in ice.
The corners of his mouth twitched violently, his eyelids jumped without cease, and his murky old eyes filled with incredulous shock and a terror that seeped into his very marrow.
He went numb.
Utterly numb.
Lord Taisu felt a chill shoot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head, enveloping him in a terror unlike anything he had ever known.
Reinforce the Great Dao Cage?!
This madman... he actually intended to reinforce the Great Dao Cage?!
Lord Taisu's breathing stopped completely at that moment.
His mind went blank. Only Gu Changqing's words echoed wildly within it, haunting him like a nightmare he could not shake.
He knew better than anyone that this Chaos Secret Realm, this Great Dao Cage that had trapped him for endless ages, was not immutable, even though it sealed him here and prevented him from breaking free or emerging into the world.
For hundreds of millions of years, he had never stopped struggling.
Using the Taisu True Exposition as his guide and his own Dao Rhythm as his foundation, he had worn away at the cage's barriers day after day, year after year.
Though his progress was slow and the results meager, the barriers were indeed