Chapter 187: The Wind Broke the Barrier

The thick rope bound Bai Hou tightly into a ball like a zongzi, but Nai Ge Li Si was still uneasy, so he had Zi Hai pull it tighter, until Bai Hou was howling in pain.

"Howl all you want, who told you to eat so much? You're not even a year old, not even a year old and you're already seven or eight meters long—did you eat some level-up beans or something!?" Nai Ge Li Si was so angry he was hopping about, shouting loudly: "Tie it tighter, so its head doesn't get sliced off during teleportation."

Although Bai Hou had been stuck inside the dragon egg for five hundred years, its body had only been cultivated less than a year ago. In just one short year, it had grown larger than dragon hatchlings several hundred years old—just how many good things had it eaten?

By contrast, Nai Ai Li, and the little gold dragon from the Brusk family, were now only about a circle larger than Nai Ge Li Si themselves—this was the normal growth rate for a giant dragon.

Bound into a ball, Bai Hou became a meat zongzi with a diameter of two and a half meters. A flash of white light, and Bai Hou vanished from the teleportation array.

Returning to the Resting Abyss, they found Seeing Ange and the little angels and little zombies already there, looking up at the sky. In the heavens, an inverted city was clearly visible—that was the descending Heaven.

The moment Xia Mala mentioned a plane where great winds blew at night, Nai Ge Li Si immediately thought of this place. It just so happened that when Heaven descended, it was blown to a halt by the Resting Wind, hanging inverted in the sky above the Resting Abyss. If the gods of Light were reborn or returned, then appearing in Heaven would be perfectly reasonable.

Coincidentally, Seeing Ange already possessed the ability to explore the Holy Heaven—flight.

In the past, they hadn't explored the Holy Heaven because they couldn't fly up there. But now, they had at least two companions who could fly—Bai Hou and Lightning—so the timing to explore the Holy Heaven was ripe.

Whoosh, another flash of white light. Xia Mala was pulled out, and only after leaving the area of the teleportation array did she remove her hood.

The hood was sewn from clean holy burial cloth, stretching all the way down to her waist. Though this material was rare, after breaking the Silver Knight Order's camp, Seeing Ange had confiscated several bolts of it—perfect for making hoods, able to shield most perception throughout the journey.

Xia Mala had been teleported over with her head covered the entire time, ensuring she couldn't sense the direction or specific coordinates of the teleportation.

Lifting off the holy burial cloth, Xia Mala seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky, seeing a sight that made her whole body tremble—the Holy Heaven hanging inverted at the horizon.

The distance was too far; she could only roughly make out an outline. Holy flames ignited in Xia Mala's eyes, pulling the distant scene right before her. She heard her trembling voice murmur: "The Gods' Plaza, the Holy Light Avenue, the Dome of Light… this is Heaven. Where are the people? Where are the believers who were guided up to Heaven? Where are they?"

Carrying her doubts, Xia Mala walked out of the canyon, took a look around, and got another fright: "Did you guys dig out the elves' home? Why are there so many World Trees here?"

A horse head popped out, saying disdainfully: "Do the elves have this many World Trees at home? Don't exaggerate…"

Xia Mala's clear gaze swept over Lightning once. That look of pure, absolute innocence made Lightning unable to continue, and he muttered as he ran off: "How is she purer than an elf? Annoying…"

"Alright, alright, get ready, we're going up into the sky!" Nai Ge Li Si shouted loudly.

The Titans walked over one by one, and Seeing Ange stuffed them into the Palace of Rest. The little angels and little zombies were all stuffed in too, leaving only Xia Mala and Nai Ge Li Si. Then everyone mounted Bai Hou, with Lightning following alongside, and they flew toward the sky.

Everyone could fly, just not very high. Even if they fell from the sky, they wouldn't necessarily die from the fall. Having one more with strong flying ability was just an extra safety measure.

Don't be fooled by Lightning having no wings—his ability to walk on air made his aerial mobility absurdly strong, even more freakish than those with wings.

The group rode on Bai Hou's back, flying toward the sky.

On the ground, Lisa and the others set up lounge chairs, poured some green jujube juice, and lay back looking at the sky. They had originally thought it would take some time, but the silver dot representing Bai Hou rose up to Heaven, circled around a few times, and then flew back.

"What's going on? Why are you back?" everyone asked with concern.

Nai Ge Li Si wore a sour expression: "Can't get in. There's a barrier called the Dome of Light, can't get through."

Huh? Blocked at the very first step? Didn't even get through the door?

Instinctively, everyone turned their gaze toward Seeing Ange.

Nai Ge Li Si knew what they were thinking and quickly said: "Don't even think about it. Setting aside whether the Plane-Piercing Hand would even work, even if it did, I wouldn't let Seeing Ange take that kind of risk. That's a barrier—a planar barrier, understand? It belongs to the power of the plane itself. What if it backfires and he gets hurt?"

Everyone thought about it, found it very reasonable, and quickly nodded.

Since they couldn't get into the Holy Heaven, they might as well take the opportunity to deal with matters in the Resting Abyss. It had been a long time since they'd been back, and they didn't know the current situation in the Abyss.

Anna quickly reported: "Everything is in good shape. The Abyss is developing stably, the people are living and working in peace, production enthusiasm is high, no problems at all."

Among these people, the one who returned to the Abyss most often was Anna, and her governance skill was streets ahead of Nai Ge Li Si's. As long as it was a problem that administrative means could solve, it basically wasn't a problem.

But then her tone shifted, and Anna added: "However, the biggest issue right now is the World Transit Station. Lord Nai Ge, should we put the World Transit Station into operation? Or just bury it again? We already have very few hands here, and just maintaining the transit station is already very difficult."

The reason the World Transit Station had been buried back then was precisely because, under the Resting Wind, they couldn't spare the manpower to maintain it, so they were forced to abandon it.

Now the transit station has been cleared out, but it's still not operating. Pouring manpower into maintenance with no output is a heavy burden on the Resting Abyss, which currently has only a little over forty thousand people.

Of course, with a farming expert like Seeing Ange around, supporting a few thousand idle people wouldn't be a problem. Anna's main issue was that she had nothing much to report. If she just said everything was fine, how would that show the leader's value?

You always have to report some matters that need the leader to resolve, to highlight the leader's role. Otherwise, who in Bingcheng would recognize a salted fish like Tiancai Luther?

"No, we can't put it into operation, but we can't bury it back either. If we operate it, we don't have the strength to hold this place, can't keep those comings and goings in check. But if we bury it, what if we need it someday? We can't just dig it back up on the spot. Anyway, let's just leave it as is. Short on manpower—later, transfer the undead from the Dark Side City over."

"Oh, alright. Then there's also the demon crystal refinery in Demon Valley…" Don't be fooled by everything seeming fine—handling it all still involved a thousand tangled threads, and before they knew it, it was already evening.

Seeing Ange and the others had long vanished without a trace, no one knew where they'd run off to play.

The Resting Wind slowly began to blow.

Xia Mala, who had been in low spirits ever since returning that morning, suddenly looked up, tilted her head listening to something, then abruptly shot out light wings and rocketed into the sky.

"Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going? It's dangerous, come back! Are you crazy?! The wind will kill you!" Nai Ge Li Si shouted urgently, but Xia Mala acted as if she couldn't hear, flying straight toward the sky. The wind blowing against her grew stronger and stronger, and soon it was buffeting her all askew.

Deep in the World Tree forest, Seeing Ange, riding on Bai Hou's back, whooshed up into the sky, chasing after Xia Mala.

"Seeing Ange, don't chase her!" Nai Ge Li Si shouted urgently. Although he couldn't bear to see Xia Mala get blown to death by the wind, he was even less willing to let Seeing Ange risk his life to save her. Ten fallen angels couldn't compare to a single bone of Seeing Ange's.

But he soon realized Seeing Ange had it under control. He saw Bai Hou bare its teeth, revealing the void stone held in its mouth. Activated within the Resting Wind, it quickly formed a void bubble that enveloped Bai Hou and Seeing Ange on its back.

Accelerated by the void bubble, Bai Hou streaked past Xia Mala like lightning. Seeing Ange reached out, grabbed her by the belt, and hauled her into the void bubble.

At such extreme speed, the force of the yank nearly squeezed her guts out.

But the moment she got inside the void bubble, Xia Mala, ignoring her own discomfort, said urgently: "The wind broke the barrier. We can get in now."