"Then I wish Lord Lin Lei and the two of you a safe return." The silver-haired elder Gaolun smiled faintly. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and added, "Oh, right, Lord Lin Lei, I'm not sure if you're aware, but once you enter the Planar War, you won't be able to return until the war is over."
"Hm?" Lin Lei turned to look at him.
"Lord Lin Lei, you truly didn't know." The silver-haired elder Gaolun chuckled. "That's the rule. You can enter at any time, but everyone… must wait until the war ends before they can leave. There's no way out in the middle, and you can't escape even if you wanted to."
"That means waiting over eight hundred years." Lin Lei's brow furrowed.
He had originally planned to finish the mission with Bei Bei as quickly as possible and then rush back.
"I was too arrogant. Killing a commander isn't that easy. Over eight hundred years — I'll just have to fight for all of it inside." At that moment, Lin Lei understood why so many lords and city masters were unwilling to enter the Planar War. Even if you earned the military merits you needed, you still had to stay until the very last moment. And even if you didn't attack anyone else, others would certainly attack you.
"Boss, come on, let's go in," Bei Bei said, showing no fear whatsoever.
Lin Lei nodded, and the two of them flew toward the spatial gate.
It was five meters wide and ten meters tall, its entire surface radiating a dark black glow. Lin Lei and Bei Bei soared into the spatial gate. Just like plunging underwater, the two of them vanished from the vast hall.
"Who knows if they'll make it out alive," Gaolun murmured, shaking his head slightly.
Back on the Yulan Continent, Lin Lei had once passed through a spatial gate to reach the plane where the divine tombs were located.
But this time, the feeling of passing through the Planar Gate was completely different.
"So the Planar Gate is actually a long corridor," Lin Lei said, somewhat surprised. Bei Bei was equally astonished as he looked around.
The corridor was five meters wide and ten meters high, with streaks of flowing light coursing along its walls. Everything looked dazzlingly beautiful. Lin Lei and Bei Bei flew forward along the direction of the spatial corridor. Lin Lei felt deeply amazed: "This corridor seems to be warping space."
Flying through it, Lin Lei experienced a disorienting sensation of time and space going askew.
"Boss, what do you think — if I attack this corridor, will it collapse?" Bei Bei asked.
Lin Lei's heart lurched at the words. He glared at Bei Bei. "Bei Bei, don't even think about it. If this Planar Corridor really collapses and we get caught in spatial turbulence, we're done for." Lin Lei knew very well that even the most powerful highgod, once trapped in spatial turbulence, could be destroyed.
"I was just saying," Bei Bei muttered.
Suddenly —
Lin Lei noticed a faint glow ahead in the spatial corridor. "Hm? Are we there?"
Lin Lei and Bei Bei burst out of the corridor.
"Welcome, my lords." A composed voice rang out. Before Lin Lei and Bei Bei could even take in their surroundings in the Planar War, they looked toward the source of the voice and saw a massive crowd standing in a dark mass ahead. Lin Lei swept his gaze across them: "There must be several hundred people!"
However, Lin Lei also sensed the aura of their emblems.
They were on his side!
Lin Lei silently breathed a sigh of relief. The speaker was a cold-looking woman with red hair. She continued, "My lords, may I ask — is this your first time in the Planar War, or have you had experience here before?"
Lin Lei couldn't help but frown.
"Please don't mind my asking," the stern red-haired woman quickly said with a smile. "The spatial gate from the Underworld to here is under our watch. Our lord has instructed us that if any newcomers arrive in the Planar War who aren't familiar with it, he would be happy to receive you and share some information."
Lin Lei and Bei Bei exchanged a glance.
"Boss, let's just go. What's there to be afraid of?" Bei Bei transmitted via soul.
Lin Lei also felt that since he knew nothing about the Planar War, it would be good to learn what he could.
"Then fine, lead the way," Lin Lei said.
"This way, please." The red-haired woman immediately set off with Lin Lei and Bei Bei.
As they traveled, Lin Lei and Bei Bei carefully took in the Planar War. A slight probing sense made Lin Lei marvel: "The gravity in this Planar War is far greater than in the Underworld or Hell! This is the heaviest gravity of any plane I've ever seen. And the range of divine sense seems to be restricted even more severely."
Lin Lei realized that his range of divine sense had been constrained to roughly a hundred meters.
"My lords, legend has it that this Planar War was jointly created by the four Supreme Gods," the red-haired woman said with a smile. "Even the four Great Sovereign Planes — the Underworld, the Celestial Plane, and the others — were each created by a single Supreme God. As for the Planar War, its stability far exceeds that of the Sovereign Planes. Here, even a commander would find it extremely difficult to tear through space."
Lin Lei was inwardly shocked.
The more stable a plane, the greater its gravitational pull and the stronger its binding force.
Lin Lei glanced upward.
Above the Planar War, there were no stars. At extreme heights, only chaotic, multicolored spatial turbulence churned. The reason the entire Planar War wasn't shrouded in complete darkness was because that multicolored spatial turbulence provided a faint, dim illumination. This kept the entire battlefield in a state of perpetual gloom.
"Hey, what's going on up there?" Bei Bei asked.