I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 1199 - 866: Touching the Barrier

Chapter 1199: Chapter 866: Touching the Barrier

Since it was the consciousness of the Ancient Venerable leading, Zheng Yichen was not in a hurry to leave. He even had the mind to tease a bit: "Sorry about that. Not long ago, I might have been a bit too harsh."

If it hadn’t been for chopping off the Ancient Venerable’s arms, the Ancient Master would probably have been able to directly repair the sky during the Sky Mending, rather than leaving some aftereffects now.

If it were a spatial issue, Zheng Yichen could still solve it. However, the fissure in the sky now wasn’t simply a rupture of space but a breakage of the World Barrier, and Zheng Yichen had no means for that.

He could, however, choose to destroy.

"...No worries, thank you." A deep voice echoed, but it was actually Li Changsheng’s voice.

Zheng Yichen looked at the Ancient Venerable. The Ancient Venerable’s mouth hadn’t moved, but the voice still came: "I intended to leave this world a protection, yet I didn’t expect it would result in this..."

With a heavy sigh, one of the Ancient Venerable’s eyes fell down. As the enormous eyeball dropped like a meteor, it swiftly arrived in front of Zheng Yichen, turning into a mass of dispersing blood.

The Ancient Venerable left no message, and the blood and flesh of his body instantly turned to ashes. The massive skeleton crashed to the ground, becoming soil upon impact and shattering to pieces.

Zheng Yichen quickly tried several methods to collect the mass of blood, discovering they couldn’t delay the blood’s dispersal.

This thing seemed as if placed in an oblivion-like environment, vanishing completely without a trace after dispersing.

Without any hesitation, Zheng Yichen reached out and grasped the basketball-sized Blood Sphere, absorbing it directly with his extraordinary abilities.

The most immediate feedback change was that Zheng Yichen’s somewhat ethereal body became relatively stable, with a noticeable increase in performance coefficient.

The strength manifested from the Alien Phenomenon environment was enhanced, although this was relatively normal since this kind of acquired ability would always improve as his strength increased.

The current enhancement was an increase in the base value, and future improvements would make the enhancement feel more evident.

What truly made Zheng Yichen feel the difference was gaining another sensation.

Stretching out his palm, Zheng Yichen reached out and pinched the air, his fingers turning slightly white. Though clutching only air, it felt as though he had grasped something indestructible, which couldn’t be crushed no matter how hard he tried.

World Barrier?

Zheng Yichen showed a look of surprise. He himself possessed the power to warp space, so he could discern that he was now clutching something beyond mere space. His power of space warping couldn’t twist the intangible object he was grasping.

Thus, the object caught through this peculiar sensation was evidently the World Barrier above space.

This thing was omnipresent yet difficult to touch; even with all means, even with world-shattering attacks, it couldn’t be touched, and touching it with a casual grasp into the air brought one into contact with it.

However, this was only contact. Contact didn’t grant Zheng Yichen a new ability to easily influence the World Barrier; such a capability didn’t exist. Being able to touch it meant that Zheng Yichen’s world-shattering attacks could directly strike the World Barrier.

Whether it could be moved was a different matter altogether.

Zheng Yichen recalled that back in the Great World, after cutting away a large portion of the continent, his immensely powerful attack seemed to touch the World Barrier?

If he’d had such ability then, one slash might truly have carved a massive gap in the Great World.

Unfortunately, the Ancient Venerable didn’t seem sociable and departed particularly straightforwardly, leaving only two sentences without any more instructions, entirely returning to dust.

This world and the entities connected to the Ancient Venerable might only be left with the Ancient Immortal Mountain from now on, right?

Zheng Yichen grabbed a handful of earth, discovering that the power of the Ancient Immortal Mountain hadn’t dissipated; rather, it had an additional enhancement, though its power had been altered in form.

The Ancient Immortal Mountain’s and the sky’s seal were linked, binding the fissure in the sky.

Hoping to leave a protection for this world, but this protection was used by local people colluding with the Boundary Breakers, and protection turned into the source of destruction.

Zheng Yichen glanced around, flew to the sky, and followed those seals towards a fissure’s side.

A disorderly sensation disrupting the sense of direction surged forward. Zheng Yichen slightly shook his head, quickly adapting after which he gazed into the gigantic fissure inside.

Inside was not a field of blackness, but filled with various brilliant colors, extremely dazzling, temporarily blinding any ordinary person who saw it.

Zheng Yichen felt that if there were legends of Five-Colored Stones in some worlds, they would likely originate from in there.

He discovered a small fissure, the crack breadth only ten centimeters, but stretching over two meters in length.

Pressing his hand against the fissure’s edge to ensure a "grip," his skin turned red instantly, and rampant flames surged forth.

"Ughhhhhhh—" As he exerted full power, the fissure remained motionless. Zheng Yichen raised an eyebrow but didn’t give up; the shadow of the World Tree emerged behind him, with the divine domain’s power intensifying on his body.

Delicate patterns of the map of mountain and river ley lines emerged from the back of his hand, gradually extending upwards on his arm. Subtle sounds of tension arose as the 10-centimeter fissure closed slowly.

"...Cough cough cough." After closing this insignificant crack, he released his hands, and the whole person started coughing. It’s been so long since he had felt the sensation of overexertion separating his arms from their sockets.

Just to close a tiny fissure amidst a heap of them made him this exhausted.

Though he did it using purely his own strength, if he had beforehand removed enough earth, closing this fissure would have been easier, possibly even larger ones could be sealed.

However, wouldn’t this still depend on one’s own solid capabilities to be truly effective?

This was repairing, not combat. The Ancient Venerable had used the remnants of strength to forcibly sew most of the fissures up.

Swinging his arms, Zheng Yichen descended from the sky. The words left before the Ancient Venerable perished weren’t much, but Zheng Yichen could sense his love for this world; thus, he should not remove the world’s earth.

Zheng Yichen found the pallor-faced Li Changsheng. He went to check the sky fissure first, knowing they couldn’t escape.

Li Changsheng heard the footsteps, lifted his head, and was now disheveled, without a trace of the Holy Emperor’s majesty.

Perhaps it was the Ancient Venerable’s final gift that gave Zheng Yichen a feeling when approaching Li Changsheng: the curse spawned by the Ancient Venerable hadn’t vanished, merely transformed into another form of curse.

Or, rather, the Li family connected to this world and the Imperial Family, along with the True Immortals’ family members, had all been "Oathed."

This "Oath" turned them into another form of "Dusk Proxy Agent," and this curse vow was passed through bloodline, affecting everyone related to Li Changsheng, regardless of their knowledge about it.

They are now the Mountain Guardians, bound forever to guard the Ancient Immortal Mountain and repair the sky’s fissures.

Anyone related to their bloodline would be influenced by this curse mission, and upon accumulating enough time, would have to come to the Ancient Immortal Mountain to fulfill the mission, repaying causality.

The Li family’s hold on the world might remain, but no emperor would sit on the throne for hundreds of years ever again.