477: Chapter 477 Entering the Time Rift Again

"They have all been transferred to the energy nodes."

Chen Yi's lips curled slightly. "ZERO really fell for it. It's so easy to trick!"

He did not act immediately, but instead spent ten minutes observing carefully, committing the patrol routes, shift change times, and reaction speeds of the remaining guards to memory.

The Tier 14 Seventh Stage brought not only an increase in power but also control over the overall situation.

Now, the amount of information he could process simultaneously was more than ten times what it used to be.

Finally, at the moment when dusk transitioned into night—the time when human vigilance was at its lowest—Chen Yi moved.

"System, I want to activate the teleportation effect of the Wind Crystal!"

[Ding! Consumed 5 Enhancement Points, activation successful!]

In an instant, Chen Yi was already standing at the edge of the Space-Time Rift.

The massive rift stretched across the dark space. Purple energy constantly escaped from its edges, condensing into tiny specks of light in the vacuum, only to be pulled back into the depths of the rift by an invisible gravitational force—

Most of the scene remained the same as before, except for a giant hand protruding from within, preventing the Space-Time Rift from closing.

Chen Yi did not pause at all and stepped directly into the rift.

No one noticed that anyone had ever been there!

The moment he entered the Space-Time Rift, Chen Yi almost thought he had arrived in another world.

The last time he entered here with Tenth Rank power, he only saw chaotic purple energy flows, manic, disordered, and dangerous!

But this time, everything had changed!

Those originally chaotic and disordered energy flows became incredibly clear in his eyes.

He could see the trajectory of the energy flows, distinguish the subtle differences in their various attributes, and even predict where each turbulent flow would surge in the next second.

Even more shockingly, countless tiny crystal fragments were suspended within the previously empty space of the rift.

These crystals varied in size, some as small as grains of sand, others as large as a fist.

They rotated slowly in the Void Realm, and the refraction of every ray of light contained spiritual power and magic power that was pure to the extreme.

"Is this… energy crystal?"

Chen Yi reached out to touch the nearest crystal.

It felt slightly cool, with a surface as smooth as a mirror.

He squeezed it gently, and the crystal shattered upon contact, turning into pure spiritual power that seeped into his body through his palm.

"Holy crap? Is it this concentrated?"

Chen Yi was shocked.

He had thought the energy in the Secret Realm was already very concentrated, but he hadn't expected it to be even more so here.

"Is this what the turbulence in the Space-Time Rift looks like to Tier 14?"

"Emilia sees these things every day…"

He suddenly understood that silver-haired witch who had lived for eight thousand years.

In the eyes of ordinary people, she was a lonely, powerful, and unapproachable legend.

But from her own perspective, the world had always looked different.

The scenery she saw, the energy she perceived, and the rules she understood were all completely different from those of mortal life.

This was not arrogance, but an objective gap in cognition.

However, there was no time to sigh now; he had to act immediately.

Chen Yi identified the direction and rushed toward the Sky Star-Fall Valley where the array eye had been located previously.

The energy crystals became increasingly dense along the way, eventually forming a brilliant band of light.

He no longer deliberately avoided them but actively absorbed the energy along the way.

His Tier 14 Physique was sufficient to withstand this level of replenishment. With every crystal he absorbed, his attributes increased slightly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, what made him even more vigilant was the presence of ZERO's true body.

However, these traces were faint and flickering; it should have just been here not long ago, but was no longer in this place.

"As expected, the true body also participated in the defense!"

Chen Yi felt relieved.

He had originally prepared a backup plan.

If he were discovered by ZERO's true body, he would have Hua Liuli use mirror teleportation to pull him back to the real world, while leaving another mirror behind as a marker.

Then he would go to raid other energy nodes, but not destroy them completely—just harass them, letting ZERO mistakenly believe that his going to the Space-Time Rift was also part of a ruse to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

When ZERO was exhausted from running around, he would make a comeback and return to the Space-Time Rift again through the mirror.

But now it seemed this backup plan would not be needed.

ZERO's attention was completely drawn to those energy nodes, and it never expected that Chen Yi's true target was the interior of the rift.

Chen Yi accelerated, and ten minutes later, he arrived at the destination of this trip—the Sky Star-Fall Valley!

"Let's begin!"

Chen Yi sat cross-legged and completely released the suppression on his own power.

His Tier 14 Seventh Stage power poured out, resonating violently with the energy in the surrounding Void Realm.

"Crackle—"

A purple-gold energy tide formed instantly!

The tide spun crazily with Chen Yi at its center, spinning faster and more violently. In just ten seconds, it formed an energy tornado a hundred meters high!

The inner wall of the tornado was pure gold—that was the color of Chen Yi's own spiritual power;

the outer wall was a deep purple—that was the energy of the Void Realm's Origin.

The two colors intertwined, emitting a thunderous roar in the silent space-time!

Seeing this, Chen Yi felt like cursing.

With this momentum and this commotion, was he afraid that others wouldn't know he was making a Breakthrough here?

But there was no other way.

Every upgrade after Tier 14 required massive amounts of energy, and the process of actively absorbing energy would inevitably trigger violent fluctuations in the surrounding energy field.

He tried his best to compress the range, but a hundred-meter tornado was already the limit.

"I can only pray not to be discovered by ZERO's true body!"

Chen Yi resigned himself and closed his eyes, focusing on guiding the energy into his body.

What he didn't know was that a few kilometers outside the Sky Star-Fall Valley, two pairs of eyes were watching him with great interest.

"Huh, what is that?"

A childish female voice came from nearby.

It was a little girl who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old, with long, bright golden hair cascading down to her waist. Her large, light purple eyes were pure and cute, and she wore a slightly oversized light pink dress, making her look a bit like a princess from a fairy tale kingdom.

She was floating in the Void Realm, pointing her small finger at the energy tornado soaring into the sky in the distance, tilting her head, full of curiosity.

"Is this someone absorbing energy to make a Breakthrough? Interesting!"

The man beside the girl replied softly.

He looked to be in his early forties, with a tall and slender build, wearing a deep cyan robe that fluttered without wind.

His face was elegant and gentle, with fine lines of age at the corners of his eyes, but his deep gray eyes revealed a gaze that seemed to have seen all the vicissitudes of the world.

"Grandpa Nolan, shall we go over and take a look?"

The girl tugged on Nolan's sleeve. "I haven't seen a living, intelligent life form for such a long, long time!"

"Alright, alright, whatever you say, Zhao Zhao!"

Nolan smiled helplessly and nodded gently.

The two of them concealed their auras and approached the tornado silently.

Their concealment techniques had reached an unimaginable Realm.

They were clearly hovering just three meters from the edge of the tornado, within arm's reach of Chen Yi.

Yet Chen Yi had not noticed their arrival at all!