**Chapter 691: Invasion!**

Infernal Sulfur Plane, Main Control Room.

Crimson lava rivers flowed slowly beneath the transparent crystal walls, filling the surrounding land with the scent of sulfur and superheated metal.

The entire hall resembled a mechanical heart embedded at the plane’s core. Countless rune tracks rotated along the dome, accompanied by a constant low rumble. Jie Ming stood at the center of the plane origin array.

The hem of his black robe fluttered wildly in the turbulent energy currents. He raised his hands, his fingertips tracing through the void as authority runes lit up one after another.

These runes interlocked and reorganized, eventually forming a massive and intricate three-dimensional structure that unfolded layer by layer before him.

It looked like a giant flower woven from light and laws.

The petal-like authority modules rotated slowly as control over the plane’s core was stripped away level by level.

Finally, with the release of the last seal, the entire hall shook violently.

The plane origin emitted a deep buzz, as if some sleeping behemoth had opened its eyes.

Jie Ming withdrew his hands and turned sideways.

“Done. Authority has been transferred.”

Viola, standing beside him, raised an eyebrow slightly.

She rarely showed her usual carefree smile. Instead, she composed herself and stepped forward.

In the next instant, the Law Solidification Domain belonging to a sixth-ring wizard erupted beneath her feet.

A gray-white ring of light spread outward, with countless runes of the Law of Pain emerging within the domain.

These runes resonated with one another, producing low, wail-like vibrations that even lowered the surrounding air temperature by several degrees.

The Law Solidification Domain did not stop. It expanded at a speed invisible to the naked eye, quickly crossing the boundaries between the tangible and intangible, and finally… made contact with the plane origin.

The moment the domain touched the plane origin, the entire main control room suddenly dimmed.

Immediately after, the slowly rotating golden core burst forth with dazzling brilliance, synchronizing with Viola’s domain.

Boom!!!

Invisible ripples spread outward, and the entire plane seemed to take a gentle breath.

Viola closed her eyes.

Her consciousness rapidly spread along the plane origin, sweeping across infernal volcanoes, sulfur seas, element pools, and the divine dao altars scattered throughout the continent. Moments later, a familiar smile reappeared at the corner of her lips.

“Fusion complete.”

She opened her eyes and looked at Jie Ming.

“You’ve nurtured this plane origin quite well. It’s at least thirty percent stronger than when I last visited.”

Hearing Viola’s words, Jie Ming didn’t even raise his head, continuing to operate the controls.

“…Good. Coordinates uploaded.”

His hands returned to the main control array, fingers moving rapidly as his spiritual power synchronized with the process.

“Begin plane-level array energy accumulation.”

As soon as his words fell, the vast arrays of the Infernal Sulfur Plane and its seventh-tier large-scale element pool activated simultaneously.

Rumble…

A deep vibration rose from the deepest layers of the plane—the response of its entire spatial structure operating at high speed.

Countless energy nodes lit up in succession. Crimson torrents of energy surged along the plane’s meridians, converging toward the main control room.

At the same time, the incense altars spread across the plane all lit up.

Hundreds of millions of strands of golden wish power rose and merged into the array’s circulation, instantly pushing the energy accumulation speed to its designed limit.

The atmosphere began to distort.

Fine cracks continuously appeared along the edges of space.

Viola raised her hand, using her Law Solidification Domain to convert the coordinates Jie Ming provided into navigation parameters recognizable by the plane origin. The gray-white domain beneath her feet gradually took on a faint golden hue, achieving frequency synchronization with the Incense Fire Divine Dao system.

Then, she opened one eye and lazily glanced at Jie Ming.

“Navigation locked.”

“But I still need to confirm… just how precise are these coordinates of yours?” She curled her lips. “If they aren’t accurate enough, it’ll be a real hassle to find the target later.”

“Relax. I can guarantee the target plane will remain within visual range,” Jie Ming replied calmly.

Viola clicked her tongue. “That’s precise enough.”

In the next second, the plane-level array reached peak energy accumulation.

Jie Ming brought his hands together and slammed the final activation rune heavily into the control core.

Boom!!!

The sky split open.

A pitch-black spatial fissure stretched across the firmament, over a hundred kilometers long, as if an invisible giant hand had brutally torn apart the sky of the Infernal Sulfur Plane. Inside the fissure, dark purple void lightning surged wildly, accompanied by deafening roars that swept across the heavens and earth.

At the other end of the fissure, a plane slowly emerged.

It was a blue plane wrapped in a planar barrier.

A pale blue protective layer covered the exterior, with fine, stable light patterns flowing across its surface like a massive energy membrane. This was the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s planar defense system.

Through the barrier, one could clearly see the unfamiliar “cosmic space” below.

Viola withdrew her hand, and her Law Domain slowly contracted around her.

She stared at the blue plane for a moment, then folded her arms, her tone as casual as if she were discussing the dinner menu.

“Want me to help you tear down the planar barrier while I’m at it?”

“Penetration, resonance, forced demolition—I’m quite skilled at all of them. A barrier of this level won’t take long.”

Jie Ming waved his hand. “I’ll handle it myself.”

Viola noticed that before speaking, he had lightly flexed his wrist.

It was a warm-up motion.

A spark of interest immediately appeared in her eyes.

In wizard civilization, the mainstream method of breaching planar barriers had always relied on the Law Solidification Domain of sixth-ring wizards.

Penetration, resonance, erosion, forced coverage…

In essence, they all involved establishing contact between the Law Solidification Domain and the planar barrier, then gradually dismantling it.

Of course, other techniques existed as well.

For example, law weapons, circumventing through natural spatial fissures, or energy resonance methods similar to those used by the Tentacle Tree Civilization.

However, none could match the efficiency and stability of the Law Solidification Domain.

Yet.

Jie Ming possessed another method.

His True Body.

The True Body in the Dao Integration Realm could not merge with a plane’s origin like a sixth-ring wizard.

Because a cultivator’s so-called “Dao Integration” meant aligning with the great Dao of Heaven and Earth—the fundamental rules governing all things.

Simply put, the Dao Jie Ming had integrated with was the Dao of the entire wizard world, not the localized laws of any single plane.

Compared to the wizard civilization’s Law Solidification Domain—a specialized technique derived from the plane’s own structure—cultivation civilization’s Dao Integration and True Body were somewhat mismatched when dealing with plane-related matters.

But… they were not entirely useless.

Facing a planar barrier was one of the rare situations where the Dao Integration True Body could demonstrate its effectiveness.

If one had to describe it, a wizard’s Law Solidification Domain was “integration” when confronting a planar barrier.

His was “forced demolition.”

Of course.

This so-called forced demolition was by no means pure brute force.

The barrier structure of a normal plane was not a thin protective shield, but a three-dimensional structure similar to an atmosphere, often tens of thousands of kilometers thick.

In comparison, his thousand-meter-tall True Body was so minuscule it was almost insignificant.

If he truly relied on raw strength to tear it apart, it would be no different from an ant trying to rip apart a steel wire mesh.

But what Jie Ming truly relied on had never been simple power.

He raised his head, gazing through the massive spatial fissure in the sky at the blue plane on the other side, his eyes calm.

The moment the spatial connection was established, Jie Ming had already begun to act.

The power of the Incense Fire Divine Dao had long since begun silently infiltrating the planar barrier.

Meanwhile, the Fate Subsystem rapidly analyzed the barrier’s structure.

Load-bearing nodes, energy circulation, spatial meridians, areas of law weakness…

All data was being processed at high speed.

What he truly needed to do was use himself as the core and apply force precisely at the weakest points of the entire barrier.

Like a hacker breaching a firewall.

Or using a lever to pry open a mountain.

Jie Ming took one step forward, leaving the main control room at the plane’s core and arriving in the sky.

Following his will, even more golden power rose from the altars across the Infernal Sulfur Plane, transforming into a mighty current that crossed the void and spread toward the blue plane.

The instant the golden light touched the planar barrier, it began to penetrate.

Jie Ming’s figure flashed, directly crossing the spatial fissure and appearing in front of the blue plane’s barrier.

Dark golden light slowly emerged from his body.

Then… it erupted violently!

Boom!!!

In the blink of an eye, the thousand-meter True Body manifested.

It was a majestic dark golden giant, towering like a mountain.

Its muscular contours resembled cast metal, radiating an suffocating sense of oppression.

Two faces opened three golden pupils simultaneously.

Two vertical pupils lit up at the same time, golden light piercing through the void.

Jie Ming raised his hands.

His ten fingers spread open.

And pressed onto the surface of the planar barrier.

Then…

He exerted force.

Boom!!!

The point of contact exploded with blinding radiance.

The blue barrier twisted madly, like red-hot steel forcibly plunged into ice water.

Dark golden power spread inward along the meridians created by the Incense Fire Divine Dao’s infiltration. The Fate Subsystem operated at high speed within his spiritual sea, marking all structural weak points.

All ten fingers simultaneously gripped those nodes.

Crack… crack… crack…

Accompanied by sounds like shattering glass, the spatial structure of the planar barrier began to collapse.

In the massive energy clash, blue-white electric arcs exploded wildly, each several hundred meters long, leaping chaotically through the void.

Jie Ming’s arm muscles bulged dramatically as golden wish power surged from behind him like a waterfall, pouring into his arms and finger bones.

His power continued to climb.

The barrier’s surface emitted a piercing shriek.

The sound was like glass cracking and billions of tons of metal being forcibly twisted apart, setting one’s teeth on edge.

On the surface, it looked as if he was tearing the plane apart with brute force.

But in reality, the Fate Subsystem was scanning the entire barrier’s stress structure millions of times per second.

Every exertion of force synchronized perfectly with the internal infiltrating Incense Fire meridians to dismantle the structure.

It was less like physical labor and more like solving a complex mathematical problem.

Finally, after continuous erosion, a small fissure appeared in the planar barrier.

Jie Ming seized the opportunity to sink his fingers into the first layer of the barrier’s structure, accelerating the invasion.

At the same time.

Tentacle Tree Civilization, Border Monitoring Station.

An old tree on duty leaned lazily against the control console, using its tentacles to hold a nutrient solution while absentmindedly scanning the monitoring screens. Ever since the expedition fleet departed, work here had become unbearably boring.

Void signals were often disrupted by elemental turbulence, with contact arriving only once every few days.

Most of the time, the monitoring curves remained as flat as still water.

Duty?

Essentially just daydreaming.

“Seriously, it’s gotten a bit boring since those gilded little fellows left…”

Although the young scions of the great families were each more arrogant than the last, as youngsters they at least brought some vitality to the place.

The old tree had just brought the nutrient solution to its mouth.

Suddenly, the monitoring screen flashed red!

The entire system jumped straight into maximum alert status!

A piercing alarm blared.

Data on the screen skyrocketed within less than a second.

“…”

The old tree’s crystal eyes widened abruptly.

Extreme high-energy reaction detected on the outer wall of the planar barrier!

Spatial coordinates locked!

Unknown energy source forcibly breaching the barrier!

The nutrient solution in its tentacles dropped to the floor with a splash.

“Border Monitoring Station calling headquarters!!!”

The old tree’s tentacles slammed frantically on the controls as it let out a frenzied roar.

“Planar barrier under attack!”

“Repeat! Planar barrier under unidentified attack!”

“Super high-energy reaction detected. Suspected hostile civilization invasion!!!”