149: Chapter 149 Forbidden Gate
In the living room, the television was still broadcasting the weather.
The female host's voice had been turned down very low.
"Dongjiang City will be cloudy turning to clear tomorrow, with short-term gusts in some areas..."
Outside the window.
The edge of the entire world was thinning.
That black line had already pressed up against the taixu barrier.
The cracks in the Purple-Gold Canopy held up by the Dragon Girl grew denser; behind every fissure, buildings, mountains, and clouds were being forcibly flattened into two-dimensional planes.
It wasn't destruction.
It was dimensionality reduction.
Even the process of "destruction" itself was being compressed into nonexistence.
Zero Seven stared at the line of text behind the black line, her face terrifyingly pale.
[Pangu No. 2, Archiving Failed.]
Her throat moved, and her voice was dry.
"This isn't a warning."
Jiang Feng looked at her.
Zero Seven forced herself to explain: "This is a record."
"Wuliang Heaven's cleanup program only marks failed samples."
"Pangu No. 1 is you."
"Pangu No. 2... should be another variable entity that appeared once before."
The Dragon Girl sat on a chair, her small hand pressed against her chest.
She had just finished swallowing the extreme grade godhead, and her body hadn't stabilized yet, but she forcibly pushed the Purple-Gold Canopy outward by another inch.
Purple-gold light flowed continuously from the cracks on the two small dragon horns on her forehead.
Jiang Feng glanced at her.
"Don't overexert yourself."
The Dragon Girl gritted her teeth.
"I can hold on."
From the kitchen, Liu Cuilan's voice drifted out.
"Longlong, the hawthorn water is almost ready, just bear with it a bit longer."
The Dragon Girl's eyes instantly turned red.
"Mm!"
She answered very obediently.
Zero Seven's scalp tingled as she listened.
The world outside was about to be compressed into a sheet of paper.
And yet, hawthorn water was still being boiled in the house.
This family really lived the absurd as their daily life.
Just then, a loud shout came from downstairs.
"Brother Feng!"
Jiang Feng walked to the window.
On the street below, Li Hu was running, drenched in sweat, carrying a suit of chaos black gold battle armor.
Beside him, Jiang Jianguo was carrying two bags of groceries, also looking up at the sky.
On that face weathered by years of sun and wind on construction sites, there wasn't much panic.
He only asked one thing.
"Is your mother still in the house?"
Jiang Feng pushed open the window.
"Dad, don't come up."
Jiang Jianguo frowned: "What time is it already, and you're still not letting me up?"
Li Hu also got anxious: "Brother Feng! I'll protect Uncle and Auntie! I can really handle things now!"
Jiang Feng glanced at the Chaos Supreme Treasure on Li Hu's shoulder.
"Take the groceries first."
Li Hu was stunned.
Jiang Jianguo had already conveniently stuffed the groceries into his hands.
"Hold them steady, there are ribs inside."
Li Hu: "..."
No, Uncle.
The sky is about to disappear.
And you're still worried about the ribs?
Nevertheless, he obediently held the groceries tight.
Jiang Feng raised his hand.
No pillars of light.
No Formation.
The entire residential building, along with the surrounding three blocks, suddenly vanished from reality for an instant.
The next second.
They were perfectly integrated into the edge of the Wuji Source Realm.
The streetlights were still on.
The sign of the small convenience store downstairs was still flashing.
A few elderly men who had just run out to watch the commotion even maintained their posture of looking up at the sky.
Only, they could no longer feel the dimensionality reduction pressure from outside.
Jiang Jianguo looked at the suddenly quiet neighborhood and was silent for two seconds.
"You brat, you don't even give a heads-up before moving house now?"
Jiang Feng replied: "A temporary shelter from the wind."
Li Hu swallowed hard while clutching the two bags of groceries.
He looked down at his feet.
Beneath him was still the familiar concrete road.
But beyond the concrete road was a boundless Sea of Chaos Origin.
Only one sentence remained in Li Hu's mind.
Brother Feng's property deed is probably written outside the Universe.
Jiang Feng closed the window.
Zero Seven was already numb watching this scene.
"You... you plucked out a piece of real space?"
Jiang Feng: "Mm."
"And you're maintaining the original order of life?"
"It's convenient for my mom to cook things."
Zero Seven shut her mouth.
She felt she shouldn't have asked.
Every time she asked, her common sense shattered.
Outside.
The Taixu Dimensional Wall finally pressed down.
Only a final layer of thin light remained of the Purple-Gold Canopy the Dragon Girl had spread.
Above Huaxia, tens of thousands of professionals were pressed back ten thousand miles.
Not a single person could take another step forward.
Flames erupted all over Li Yan's body, and his shoulder bones creaked under the pressure.
He was still roaring.
"Push harder!"
Someone behind him shouted through gritted teeth: "General Li, we can't push anymore!"
Li Yan looked up at the grey-robed figure behind the canopy and cursed.
"If you can't push, then just stay standing for me!"
Inside the command center.
Xiao Zhenjiang looked at the screen and slowly took off his military cap.
He didn't say a word.
He simply gave a military salute toward the screen.
Shen Qingni was also among the crowd.
Frost wings condensed again and again, only to be crushed repeatedly by the high-dimensional pressure.
Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, yet she still stared upward fixedly.
Then, she saw Jiang Feng step out from that residential building.
That figure wasn't tall.
There was no divine light.
Nor were there any earth-shattering declarations.
But he just stood there, in front of the entire world.
Shen Qingni suddenly remembered the day at the Awakening Plaza.
She had once told Jiang Feng that he could be the bait in her team.
Thinking about it now.
That sentence really deserved to be buried in a hole in the ground.
Beyond the heavens.
Jiang Feng stood before the Purple-Gold Canopy.
The Dragon Girl's power was almost exhausted.
Her small face was pale, yet she was still holding on.
Jiang Feng raised his hand and patted the canopy.
"That's enough."
The Dragon Girl's voice came from the depths of the Heavenly Dao.
"I can still block it for a bit longer."
Jiang Feng's tone was very flat.
"Go back and drink your hawthorn water."
The Dragon Girl was silent for a moment.
"Oh."
The Purple-Gold Canopy slowly retracted.
The Dragon Girl's consciousness retreated back into the Wuji Source Realm.
The Taixu Dimensional Wall was now completely exposed before Jiang Feng.
That black line had no thickness.
It wasn't a blade.
Nor was it a wall.
It was more like a command.
A command to forcibly rewrite all three-dimensional structures into two-dimensional planes.
Standing at the edge of the Wuji Source Realm, Zero Seven saw Jiang Feng reach out to touch the black line, and her face changed instantly.
"Don't touch it!"
"That is the dimensionality reduction program itself!"
"Anything that touches it will be stripped of the concept of volume!"
Before her words even fell.
Jiang Feng's finger had already landed on the black line.
The black line stopped.
To be precise, the segment pressed by Jiang Feng's fingertip stopped.
The other parts were still advancing, but they were like jammed gears, exhibiting a silent vibration.
The System panel popped up.
[Taixu dimensionality reduction rule detected.]
[Source Authority: Wuliang Heaven Upper-level Cleanup Sequence.]
[Current Class: Dao Evolution Sovereign, analysis possible.]
[Upon successful analysis, Class Mastery for the 12th Rank can be increased.]
[And Level 990 13th Rank advancement quest clues will be generated.]
Jiang Feng raised an eyebrow.
"There's such a good thing?"
Zero Seven almost choked.
A good thing?
In Wuliang Heaven, this thing was called a Mining Area Cleanup Terminal.
Wherever it touched, it archived.
And you call this a good thing?
Jiang Feng gripped the black line with his fingers.
He suppressed the power of the Zero-er to its minimum.
Not erasing the whole.
Only dismantling the rules.
A strand of black filament was pulled out of the dimensional wall by him.
As soon as the filament left the main body, it twisted frantically, trying to compress Jiang Feng's palm into two dimensions.
The skin on the back of Jiang Feng's hand briefly lost its thickness.
In the next instant.
His Physical Body automatically reconstructed.
The 35-extreme base six-dimensional attributes directly pressed back.
The black filament was forcibly crushed, turning into a rule fragment that was dragged into the Wuji Source Realm.
[Ding! Successfully analyzed a Taixu dimensionality reduction rule fragment.]
[Dao Evolution Sovereign Class Mastery increased.]
[Obtained all attributes: 1 Extreme.]
[Current base six-dimensional attributes: 36 Extreme.]
Zero Seven's eyes widened.
"You're using the cleanup program to level up?"
Jiang Feng pulled out another black filament.
"Can't let it go to waste."
Zero Seven: "..."
These words were too simple.
So simple they made her want to kneel.
From within the Taixu Dimensional Wall, that cold will sounded again.
"Variable entity refuses archiving."
"Judgment: Non-recyclable."
"Executing Level 2 Cleanup."
Behind the black line, the serial number [Pangu No. 2, Archiving Failed] suddenly cracked open.
From the crack, a withered hand reached out.
That hand had no flesh.
Only dense, ancient patterns.
When Jiang Feng saw those patterns, his eyes darkened for the first time.
Those patterns were the same as the marks on the core of the Pangu Dao Fruit within him.
They were also the same as that ancient carving deep beneath the Blue Star.
Zero Seven's voice trembled.
"That isn't a living person."
"That is archived wreckage."
"The variable remains left behind after the cleanup program failed."
The withered palm slowly opened.
In the palm was a broken stone fragment.
Four words were carved on the stone fragment.
[blue star earth key.]
Jiang Feng stared at that stone fragment.
The Pangu Dao Fruit inside him vibrated.
Deep within the Wuji Source Realm, that river of flesh and blood he had swallowed also began to churn.
It was as if all the scattered clues were being forcibly pulled together at this moment.
Jiang Feng raised his hand and gripped the dimensional wall.
"Come here."
He directly tore off a large section of the black line and forcibly dragged it into the Wuji Source Realm.
The Taixu dimensionality reduction rules resisted frantically.
At the edge of the Wuji Source Realm, a large area of space was compressed into paper.
Jiang Feng stepped down.
All imbalanced rules were completely zeroed out.
[Ding! Successfully plundered Taixu dimensionality reduction rule fragments.]
[Obtained all attributes: 1 Extreme.]
[Current base six-dimensional attributes: 37 Extreme.]
[12th Rank Class Mastery significantly increased.]
[13th Rank advancement conditions generating...]
The black line stopped advancing.
The external pressure on Blue Star eased.
Above Huaxia, countless professionals simultaneously fell from high altitudes back into the clouds.
Li Yan lay in mid-air, panting heavily, then suddenly cursed with a smile.
"Damn it."
"He managed to show off again."
In the command center.
Xiao Zhenjiang slowly lowered his military salute.
Zhang Changlin stared at the screen, his voice hoarse.
"Old Marshal, is the crisis averted?"
Xiao Zhenjiang didn't answer.
Because on the screen, behind the gap in the dimensional wall that Jiang Feng had torn open, a gate appeared.
Inside the gate, it wasn't Wuliang Heaven.
But an inverted blue starry sky.
There were countless Blue Stars there.
And deep within every Blue Star, an identical stone key was inserted.
Jiang Feng stood before the gap.
That withered hand belonging to the wreckage of Pangu No. 2 suddenly held out the stone fragment to him.
An intermittent voice came from deep within the dimensional wall.
"Don't... open the door..."
"Behind the door... isn't Wuliang Heaven..."
"It's... the very first Blue Star."