The barrier began to crack in ways that were not physical but conceptual. Void Walker Prime and the other old cultivators imprisoned with him were not trying to break through the seal violently. They were trying to dissolve it from within, to convince it to stop existing by demonstrating its fundamental incoherence.
Sarah and the other hybrid humans could feel the pressure. The seal that had seemed so solid, so absolute, was beginning to reveal its nature as a temporary structure. A structure designed to hold a prison open only long enough for someone to figure out how to close it permanently.
"We've been thinking about this wrong," Alexei said, his presence manifesting in the spaces between the seal and normal reality. "The seal was never meant to be permanent. Kensuke knew that. He cre
