Qing Chen did not try to destroy the grand array completely-that might trigger unpredictable changes. He merely opened a breach.
It worked!
Without hesitation, he transformed into a streak of Five-Colored Escape Light and flashed through the breach!
The instant he entered, Qing Chen formed a seal behind him, withdrawing the True Essence and Power of Laws lingering along the edges of the breach.
With no external force tearing at it, the array membrane began to writhe slowly, gradually closing.
But the disturbances in the underwater Spirit Veins, the towering waves, and the hurricanes continued, though all remained suppressed beneath the formation.
Half a quarter of an hour later, in the interior of Immortal-Severing Island.
Qing Chen stood on soft soil, the sensation beneath his feet almost excessively real.
He looked around, his brow furrowing slightly.
A hundred and sixty or seventy years had passed since he had last entered the island with the Condensed Jade Sect.
Yet the scene before him was vastly different from his memories.
Back then, there had been villages and small towns near the Ghost-Crying Mountain Range, but they had been scattered and amounted to little.
But now...
Qing Chen spread his Divine Sense, slowly sweeping across a radius of three hundred li.
He saw fields crisscrossed with paths, newly built official roads, and villages wreathed in cooking smoke. Farther away, he could even make out the outlines of cities.
This was absolutely not the island secretly controlled by the Condensed Jade Sect back then, used as a trial ground, with the smoke of war rising everywhere and chaotic fighting on every side.
Here, a complete, unified, and even... fairly sizable mortal kingdom had already taken shape.
"Great Shun... the Qing Clan Imperial Clan? Could it be the immortal cultivation techniques Second Younger Brother