Chapter 271: First Activation of the Crossing Key

The news of Silver Wing's death, coupled with that blurred yet shattering combat footage, struck like the sharpest cold front, freezing the blood of everyone in the Command Center. Dragon Country's hidden ace, the pinnacle of human single-combat power, had been utterly shattered before the indescribable anomaly, reduced to a cold corpse in the Snow Mountain pass.

This cruel reality mercilessly declared the total ineffectiveness of conventional force against the anomalies of Kunlun Mountain.

Su Wenqian, Lei Dong, and others wore grim expressions, their gazes unconsciously fixed on Qin Feng's still-serene profile. They knew the Master would never stand idly by while Xia Wan was trapped in despair, nor would he allow the Black Object—potentially pivotal to civilization's future—to slip out of control. But how would the Master respond to a threat beyond comprehension?

Under their watchful eyes, Qin Feng slowly closed his eyes.

His spirit sank into the profound, boundless System Star Swirl. Countless light points, representing rules and information, flowed like a river of stars; at its center, the Singularity—the origin and endpoint—emitted a hazy, majestic glow.

【High-priority crisis detected: Kunlun Mountain "Shenhua Tianfu" anomaly.】【Related target: Xia Wan (life signal weak), unknown rule-based entity (high threat).】【Assessment of conventional intervention success rate: below 0.01%.】【Recommendation: Activate backup protocol—Space Coordinate Anchoring and Short-Range Rule Traversal.】

Lines of cold, digital prompts flashed through Qin Feng's consciousness.

Space Coordinate Anchoring… Short-Range Rule Traversal…

This was one of the newly unlocked abilities granted after the system's upgrade, involving higher-dimensional applications. It was not simple teleportation, but a near-"tampering" with local rules to achieve obstacle-ignoring traversal between two points—massively costly, severely restricted, and fraught with unpredictable risks.

Yet now, it was the only way to rapidly and directly intervene in the core zone.

Qin Feng did not hesitate.

His spirit energy focused with the precision of a fine probe, locking onto the spatial coordinate where Xia Wan's final signal had vanished, as relayed by the Low-Altitude Skimmer. Simultaneously, the system's immense computational power surged, analyzing the chaotic spatial structure and energy fields of the region, seeking weak points for "Rule Interception."

This process was extraordinarily perilous—like walking the edge of a cliff in a storm; one misstep could shatter him into fragments of chaotic rules or plunge him into unknown spatial currents.

Inside the Command Center, all held their breath, watching only Qin Feng, standing motionless with closed eyes, as if enveloped in an invisible force field that subtly warped even the light around him.

Seconds ticked by.

Suddenly!

Qin Feng snapped his eyes open!

Within those deep eyes, countless stars were born and died, reflecting the trajectories of rules and the veins of space.

He raised his right hand, index and middle fingers pressed together; a thread of exquisitely fine, yet terrifyingly potent light curled around his fingertips—this light was not energy, but something… a manifested rule authorization.

Under his mental command, within the system interface, a previously unused, ancient-looking virtual button—shaped like a Bronze Key—flashed from dull gray to brilliant brightness!

【Space Coordinate Anchoring complete.】【Rule channel construction… 10%… 30%… 70%…】【Warning: Target region rules are extremely chaotic. High-tier interference detected. Traversal carries high uncertainty.】【Confirm activation—'Crossing Key'?】

Qin Feng's gaze pierced through the Command Center's walls, as if already seeing the chaos-shrouded domain within Kunlun Mountains' Belly, the floating Black Object, and the struggling girl within.

He did not hesitate.

His will struck like a blade, descending!

"Activate."

Hum—!!!

An invisible yet colossal ripple erupted from Qin Feng, spreading outward—not as energy, but as the ripple of space-time rules forcibly twisted and altered!

Every person in the Command Center felt, in that instant, a tremor deep within their souls—a crushing sense of insignificance—as if the very underlying code of the world trembled in response.

In their stunned gazes, the space before Qin Feng rippled like water struck by a stone. At its center, light twisted, scenery blurred—and slowly, an unstable, narrow, dark passage formed, barely wide enough for one person.

From the other end of the passage came the chaotic, icy, violently repulsive aura of Kunlun Mountain.

First activation of the Crossing Key!

Qin Feng stepped forward—and his figure vanished instantly into the dark passage.

The moment he entered, the passage shuddered violently, then collapsed like a phantom, disappearing in an instant.

The Command Center returned to stillness.

As if the breathtaking spectacle had never occurred.

Only Su Wenqian, Lei Dong, and the others stared at each other, faces etched with disbelief and profound awe.

The Master… he…

He actually… crossed space… in this unimaginable way? To the core of Kunlun Mountain?!

This had utterly exceeded their understanding of power!

Su Wenqian stared at the spot where Qin Feng had vanished, unable to return to herself.

She finally began to understand why the Master had always dismissed Pandora's provocations and the storms of the outside world.

When a man can tear open space with his bare hands and traverse without regard to rules…

What are worldly power and martial strength to him? No different from dust.

Silver Wing's death proved the limit of mortal power.

What the Master just demonstrated… was the method of a god.

The outcome of the Kunlun Mountain conflict had, from the moment the Master activated the Crossing Key, already been decided.