When they were still several hundred li from the exit, the immense pressure took shape, blocking Long Chen and Xia Chen from moving forward again.
Long Chen reached out; the tentacle was soft and elastic. With a gentle touch, it slowly retracted, but with every inch it retracted, its strength increased by tens of thousands of pounds.
If you push hard, the elasticity disappears, and it feels as if a star stretches across the way, with no way forward.
Long Chen pushed hard, but the terrifying force made his chest ache faintly. This shocked him—the barrier was terrifying.
While Long Chen was still shocked, Xia Chen had already begun studying this barrier. But the more he studied it, the more serious his expression became.
"So, how is it? Can it break through?" Long Chen asked.
"Unsolvable! This is an unsolvable barrier, absolutely beyond human strength to break." Xia Chen's expression was grave; he had never seen such a tricky barrier, without a single flaw.
Xia Chen was helpless against it, because he simply couldn't find a way to break it. This was a barrier formed by the interaction between the two worlds.
To break through, one must understand all the laws of the two worlds. Not to mention the mysterious world opposite, just the laws of the Xuanling Realm, studying them for tens of millions of years, is impossible to fully comprehend.
Because the laws of a world are not immutable; they are evolving and progressing on their own, influenced by external factors, and thus change.
So Xia Chen directly used the word "unsolvable," meaning that not only him, but any formation master would be useless if they came.
Unless someone is stronger than the sum of the two worlds combined, violently breaking them apart. But does such a person really exist in this world?
Hearing Xia Chen say there was no solution, Long Chen's heart sank. He knew Xia Chen's strength very well. In other words, it was all for nothing—they couldn't possibly follow the passage to see the world on the other side.
"But I have a way. Let's get closer to that cave entrance. Boss, please wait a moment, let me give it a try." Xia Chen said.
As he spoke, Xia Chen took out formation disks one by one and empowered them around him. Sometimes he took out hundreds, sometimes tens of thousands. When the dense arrays were embedded all around, Long Chen clearly felt the blocking force ahead weaken.
Half an hour later, millions of formation disks were floating in the void, sweat beading on Xia Chen's forehead.
"When did you get so wealthy?"
When Long Chen saw so many formation disks, he was startled. These disks required countless efforts and time.
"Hehe, with Sister Qingxuan's pills, I saved time cultivating. I devoted all my time to carving formation plates and talismans.
This is already all my assets. Boss, let's move forward slowly. Once we reach our limit, we can't keep moving forward. Otherwise, if the barrier rejects us, all our assets will instantly turn to nothingness. Xia Chen said.
This was already Xia Chen's limit. He couldn't break through the barrier, but he could get as close to the entrance as possible within the barrier's allowance, provided the barrier's repulsion was not triggered.
Long Chen nodded. The two proceeded cautiously, unable to help but admire Xia Chen's formation. They walked to a spot several dozen zhang from the entrance.
There, it was as if a huge mirror had appeared at the entrance. As they approached the mirror, Long Chen and Xia Chen both stopped in their tracks. This was the limit—if they took a step forward, the barrier would trigger repellation, and the arrays Xia Chen had set up would shatter instantly. Both of them were at risk of death or injury.
But once they arrived, they could already see the outside of the entrance. At first, the barrier was in turmoil, and the outside world was blurry, but as the two stopped moving, the mirror in front of them gradually became transparent and the scenery became clearer.
When they saw the scene across from them, Long Chen and Xia Chen's hearts raced wildly. Xia Chen's eyes nearly popped out, and his voice stammered:
"That's ... That is ..."
Before him lies a range of mountains, endless peaks, yet no trees covering them; the bare peaks are laid bare.
However, on the bare mountain ranges, there were specks of golden light. When Xia Chen saw those golden dots, he pointed at them, so excited he couldn't even speak.
Although Long Chen didn't know much about immortal gold, seeing the patterns on those golden glows, he knew this thing was definitely extraordinary.
"Boss, that should be saint-grade divine material, and a raw stone divine material at that. It possesses super divinity. If you use it to craft arrowheads, it can kill saints." Xia Chen shouted excitedly.
"The key is, what's the point of knowing it? We can't get it yet? Long Chen couldn't help but say.
Long Chen was also annoyed. He had tried to stay calm, constantly telling himself not to be tempted by things he couldn't have, but Xia Chen was still wailing over there.
On a mountain peak before their eyes, countless golden nuggets the size of a fist appeared, seemingly within reach, yet the distance before them was so close and so close that it felt so helpless.
"There's ... over there!"
Xia Chen pointed at a nearby mountain peak and shouted. On the nearby peak, patches of black objects appeared. Long Chen didn't recognize them, but Xia Chen knew they were also a kind of Saint-level divine material.
Long Chen felt his heart was starting to strain. The baby could see it, but couldn't touch it. That heart-wrenching sensation was even worse than torture.
Long Chen gazed into the distance and saw that in the distance of the barren mountains lay a lush forest, the sky unusually blue, as if the stars of the heavens were right above. The whole world exuded a primal scent, as if this was the most primitive form of the primordial world.
The entire world was silent, as if devoid of life, yet this world was like an untapped treasure—just one glance made one's heart race.
"That must be the legendary Divine Wind Iron. If you add wind copper to make it softer, then imprint the Blood-Drinking Rune and it explodes rapidly upon entering the body, damn, the power is simply unimaginable...
And that silver thing, although it's hard to see, the patterns must be correct. That is Tianxing Brilliant Silver, the saint-level universal divine material Guo Ran dreamed of. Luckily, he didn't come, otherwise he would have cried... Xia Chen shed his usual calmness. Long Chen ignored him, and he actually started talking to himself.
Xia Chen was one thing talking to himself, but Long Chen was flustered by his words. If Xia Chen didn't speak, he could have pretended not to recognize these things, but Xia Chen listed each one by one, as if afraid Long Chen wouldn't know their value.
"Crack, crack..."
The two were observing when suddenly a "rock" on the hillside in front of them moved. When Long Chen saw the movable rock, he shouted excitedly.